Hokulea wrote:More information on the aircraft that crashed on the side of Humphrey's Pk. can be found by googling aircraftarchaeology B-17G Fortress
The basic info: B-17G # 42-102899, 18 September 1944.

I would love to see this as the Flying Fortress is probably my favorite plane of all time.

Can anyone tell me exactly why the main part of the plane is buried? Or is it?

In response to joe bartels' reply:
Sounds like a trip, eh?

I guess I will just have to go to the map store and buy up. I guess it is possible, but I might have to do some nasty, nasty bushwacking and climbing to get off the trail and onto another trail, eh?

Does anyone know if there is any possible way or trails that connect Havasu Canyon to the Hermit Trailhead on the South Rim? Or is it even dooable? Mileage? I am looking for a monsterous outing sometime in the next 2 years.

The problem is more widespread than you think... I go caving a couple times a year and the problem is worse there than on any trail that I have seen. Down near Oracle, AZ, there is a cave called Peppersauce and it has thousands and thousands of people come into the cave. Sadly, there are many people...