Part 119, page 175

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Mr. WHEELER advised he was hunting at a point going toward Sardine Point, past the first dog-leg curve, which is about a mile from this point, up to the second dog-leg, which is probably about two miles from this point on the Lemon Canyon Road.

Mr. WHEELER noted that he went from the top portion of this second dog-leg road down to the road below, which he estimated to be maybe 200-400 yards across. The parachute was located under a snag tree, about 18 inches in diameter, over the top of another log, causing it to be about six inches off the ground. The parachute was under this portion and had it have been pushed back two feet further, would have been out of view. He also noted that these logs were about halfway between the upper road and the lower road or about 100-200 yards from each road, the upper and lower roads. Mr. WHEELER advised he estimated he started down from the upper road to the lower road across this area about 200 yards south of the edge of the dog-leg or switchback in the dirt road. The parachute, which is orange and white in color, has been furnished to the Bureau. The parachute, according to Mr. WHEELER, was all twisted up, as if to make a rope out of it, and then rolled up prior to being put under the log. He estimated that there were approxi- mately seven panels and it appears as if it had been cut in half, indicating the jumper may have gotten hung up in a tree.

Mr. WHEELER further noted that from the upper portion of this road, he could look down across the canyon to the lower road, where he had his camper-pickup parked by a culvert and that is where he was heading at the time he found the parachute. He advised the area around the parachute was rocky, with very little timber and only a few windfalls. He said approximately 30-50 feet from where he found the parachute, under the log, he located, with his wife, two trees together, one being a yellow pine and the other a real big juniper tree, on the hill. He said in looking up the one tree, he noted that near the top, about 65 feet up, was evidence that a limb, approximately one and one half inches in diameter, had been broken off. Below this, approximately 10 feet, he noted another limb, two and one half inches by about three inches, had been broken off and below this, all the way down the tree, were other limbs that appeared to have been broken off. He said he could not

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