Editing Without a Paddle (section)

==Plot==
12 years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry, Dan, and Tom, learn that their childhood friend Billy has died in a [[parasailing]] accident. After the funeral, they revisit the group's old tree house and find a map leading to [[D. B. Cooper]]'s lost treasure, which Billy had worked on for his entire life. Dan takes annual leave from his job as a [[General practitioner|doctor]] and joins Jerry and Tom on a camping trip to find the treasure.

Canoeing down the river, they eventually stop on the riverbank for the night. They realize they forgot to bring food, so Tom catches fish with a flashlight. However, the activity attracts a [[grizzly bear]], which chases them. When Dan falls, the bear treats him like a cub until he breaks free, following the others up a tree. In the morning, they find all their gear has been ripped up and destroyed by the bear.

The trio takes off into the river but cannot read the damaged map and avoid a pair of fishermen, causing them to miss a split in the river and travel the wrong way. They go over a waterfall and survive, although their canoe is destroyed. Venturing into the woods with a compass, they find themselves at a [[Cannabis cultivation|pot farm]], where [[redneck]]s Dennis and Elwood mistake them for thieves and start shooting at them. They escape, accidentally triggering flares which burn down the pot garden. This enrages Dennis and Elwood, who decide to hunt them down and kill them.

Later, far into the forest, after being shot at by the farmers, the trio meet [[hippie]] girls Flower and Butterfly, who treat them in their tree. The farmers find them by answering their distress radio call, but the women drop paper bags full of feces on the farmers to distract them while the trio escapes. They are saved from the thunderstorm by a mountain man, who takes them to his hut and provides them with clothes. He later reveals himself as Del Knox, Cooper's partner before his death.

The next morning, the farmers find them and shoot up the hut. The trio escapes while Del distracts the farmers by shooting at the two with his dual-wield revolvers. The trio stumbles upon the site of Cooper's crash landing, discovering his skeleton and the suitcase he used to hold the ransom money down an old mine shaft. They realize he burned his share of the money to keep warm and survive.

As Dan crawls through a small tunnel to find a way out, the farmers find Tom and Jerry, and a fistfight ensues. Eventually, Sheriff Briggs, who had earlier helped the trio, intervenes. He then reveals himself as the farmers' employer. Jerry arms a grenade taken from Dennis and throws it at the pot dealers. It explodes, causing a tree to fall on the farmers and the sheriff, who are soon arrested.

In the closing scenes, Del gives Tom, Jerry, and Dan what's left of D.B.'s non-burnt money ($100,000), but Jerry and Dan decide Tom needs it more than they do. Del begins his travels to give D.B. a proper funeral. Jerry proposes to his girlfriend Denise, Dan starts a relationship with Flower, and Tom becomes a camp counsellor for a children's summer camp, where he tells his troop an exaggerated version of the trip.