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Depends‘High Ground’ Documentary Uncovers the True Story of the 1977 Yosemite Weed Plane Crash
What the article says. Outside published “‘High Ground’ Documentary Uncovers the True Story of the 1977 Yosemite Weed Plane Crash.” In the piece, they put it this way: You would think a movie about a plane crash with three tons of illegal Mexican weed onboard, two fatalities, a run-in with the Drug Enforcement Agency, and a classic climbers versus park rangers clash would be filled with bad guys. A lot of bad guys. But as it turns out, it is possible to make a feel-good movie about the “ legend of dope lake .” Aside from the death of two pilots, could the drug plane crash of 1976 actually have had a positive ripple effect through Yosemite Valley? At a time when we’re all sorely in need of feel-good stories, the new documentary High…
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- “‘High Ground’ Documentary Uncovers the True Story of the 1977 Yosemite Weed Plane Crash” names a checkable occurrence — actor and action that can be verified on the record. The desk is grading that documented event, not every surrounding take.
- Outside is reporting something that already happened, not a tip sheet or preview. A dated action, filing, score, or official step is on the page.
- The desk stamp Real is on the documented event — not a blessing of the surrounding spin. Spin can be wrong; the occurrence still has to clear the Real bar on its own.
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