They Left a Working Car and Walked Into the Snow: The Yuba County Five
They Left a Working Car and Walked Into the Snow: The Yuba County Five
On the night of February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba City and Marysville, California, watched a college basketball game in Chico, bought pies and sodas at a corner market, and started the short drive home. Four days later, their turquoise Mercury Montego was found 70 miles in the wrong direction, at 4,400 feet on a snowbound mountain road in the Plumas National Forest, running, fueled, undamaged, and empty. Why did five men with a Special Olympics tournament the next morning drive up a frozen mountain none of them…
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