Three Troop 125 Eagle scouts were injured in a climb down from the top of McClellan Butte near Snoqualmie Pass in mid-April, 1941. They were caught in an avalanche and tumbled down 1,000 feet, and were almost buried in snow.
Claude Covington, Jay Gage, and Ben Bryant.
Claude joined the Navy in WWII and died in 1944 when his submarine sank off of Hawaii. Jay Gage was in Harborview Hospital to recover from head injury. He went on to become head of a large seafood company and retired and passed away in 1987. Ben Bryant went in the Navy and graduated from the U of W and Yale in Forestry and became a professor at the U of W. He retired and is still alive at 92 and attending Woodoand Park Presbyterian Church (he has been a member since 1928).
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