Distance

1.2 km to summit

3.9 km total

Elevation

408 m start

662 m max

Vertical

296 m gain

Time

1 hr 47 min to summit

4 hr 46 min total

This hill has some nice views but it would otherwise be unsignificant if it wasn't for its sad recent history.
There really is the wreckage of a whole DC9 passenger plane up there, that crashed on its northern (or southern?) slope in 1979 breaking the lives of 31 people.
How it really happened is somewhat unclear to me as the million debris you could find laying around seem to be on the opposite side of where they should be (the whole tail lies at least 75m below the summit on the southern slope while the documentation available online says it did impact on the northern one).
However this hike was not executed out of morbid curiosity, but to leave a flower and a prayer there, as the story of that tragic flight has always deeply struck me.
Now I somewhat regret having been there. As I set my eyes on the wreckage just lying there on the undergrowth all I could feel was grief and sorrow, and a bleak sense of being trodding a sacred ground, where so many people lost their lives in an instant.
There are no words to explain how I felt to witness the force of the impact, visibile on how horribly bent and twisted were those huge chunks of metal, the unrecognizable state of the engines and of the familiar parts of an aircraft. Makes you think about the tremendous forces all these people were subjected to, how they could have never survived something like that.
Those responsibile seem not to care about leaving tons of that garbage here for 40+ years though, disrespecting the victims families and nature at the same time. I'd also like to blame some idiotic kids through the decades that decided it was cool to spray paint the larger parts with their nonsense. Not even a bit of respect.

Nature is slowly retaking its space, and I'm sure much more stuff has slipped down the valley below in the past 43 years, still I believe a proper cleanup should be done immediately. The disturbing remains of that tragedy should be taken away. There already is a memorial plaque and the silence of this mountains to properly remember the souls lost that day.

Route name

Conca D'Oru 3.9 km route

out-and-back
Obstacles

no water source

Key gear

mountaineering boots