Wow, old curmudgeon, I didn’t know that you flew in the area at the same time.
I read in the link I posted a couple of messages up that a 177 crashed the night before in the same area...?
I don’t remember any other crash at the time.
But that coutry is really rugged. The mountains are not as high as the Rockies but they have their own hazards.
There is a lot of aluminum decorating those mountains, left there by those who “thought they could make it.”