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The Boy Scout Memorial at Carcass Wash (note sign at right) is among the most interesting memorials we've ever been to. Because the road hasn't changed at all over the years. When you read the plaque you can "see" the accident happen again. Very disturbing...
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The bronze plaque reads:
Boy Scout Memorial
JUST PRIOR TO THE CREATION of Lake Powell, a party of 49, including Explorer Scout Post 36 from LDS Pleasant View 3rd Ward, Provo, Utah, set out on an expedition to run the Colorado River rapids between Hole-in-the-Rock and Glen Canyon. Riding in an open truck, they reached this point at approximately 3:15 on the afternoon of June 10, 1963. The truck stalled as it ascended the grade on your left, and its brakes failed. Rolling backward, it overturned and rolled down the steep embankment on the other side of the sharp curve from this monument. Seven scouts and six adults lost their lives in this tragic highway accident, the third worst in Utah's history.
In loving memory of those who perished:
Gary Lynn Christensen, 14
Lynn Louis Merrell, 15
Robert Cook, 29
Randy Wayne Miller, 14
W.A. "Bill" Creer, 39
Marvin Poschatis, 29
Joseph William Erickson, 16
Gary Lynn Rasmussen, 15
Gordon Henry Grow, 15
Dr. Martin J. Shaw, 51
Randy L. Hall, 13
Dr. Harvey Darrell Taylor, 45
Dorothy Hansen, 24
Erected and dedicated June 10, 1993 by the families and friends of those who perished, in cooperation with Kane County and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Please click here to read the story of what happened that day told by two men who survived the crash
From the POV of the Highway Patrol
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Call us disturbed, but a photo of Carcass Wash was high on our list
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Hole-in-the-Rock
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