Bunce School Road & T33 Plane Crash (Colo)
07-20-2008, 07:37 AM
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Bunce School Road & T33 Plane Crash (Colo)
Not many pics, but last weekend a friend and I went up to Old Bunce School Road. It's an easy trail that parallels the Peak to Peak Highway that runs between Allenspark and Nederland. The Trail starts on Highway 7 and ends up in Camp Dick (trailhead for Middle St. Vrain Rd & Coney Flats). Off of Bunce Road are two more difficult trails - Ironclads and the trail to a crash site where an Air Force T-33 crashed in 1965.
Didn't get a chance to play around on Ironclads, but here's a couple of pics from Bunce and at the crash site.
On Bunce School Road
Bottom of Trail up to Plane Crash
Plane wreckage
Tail section
Fellow JK on the way down
In all, a fun trail and well worth the trip. Getting to the wreckage requires about a 1/4 mile hike from the end of the trail. It is a little spooky. There are pieces of the airplane, big and small, all over the hill. There is a big engine cowl at the bottom that I didn't hike down to. Both the pilot and the observer were killed in the crash.
Didn't get a chance to play around on Ironclads, but here's a couple of pics from Bunce and at the crash site.
On Bunce School Road
Bottom of Trail up to Plane Crash
Plane wreckage
Tail section
Fellow JK on the way down
In all, a fun trail and well worth the trip. Getting to the wreckage requires about a 1/4 mile hike from the end of the trail. It is a little spooky. There are pieces of the airplane, big and small, all over the hill. There is a big engine cowl at the bottom that I didn't hike down to. Both the pilot and the observer were killed in the crash.
