Assuming the $5,800 dollars of ransom loot got onto Tina Bar naturally, obviously the air pressure oscillations near Ariel cannot be related to Dan Cooper’s exact bail point. There is no way he could have drifted to any tributary of the Columbia River from the 8:12 p.m. position. When Cooper actually jumped, the stairs must not have bounced up high enough to close and cause the oscillations.

   A reexamination of the wind drift allows one to offer the following options:

   1, In order to drift into the Washougal River Valley he would have needed to jump over northeast Portland.

     2, If he jumped over southwest Portland, he could have drifted to the Clackamas River and the money could have drifted into the Willamette River and then into the Columbia at the confluence.

     3, If into the Sandy River, then the loot could have drifted into the Columbia.

     4, He could have spattered in the Willamette River.

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