This should go on Shortfield but waiting for Chris to get me set up so in the meantime here's the update.

Landed and camped at Memaloose 7/16/10. Field is in need of serious maintenance. The strip is now basically a two track and quite rutted but doable for most tailwheel aircraft. Would not advise a tri-gear. The strip is mostly dry now at the N. end.

Mosquitos are terrible. View is superb and isolation is even better. It doesn't appear the field has been graded or rolled or mowed or had any maintenance done for a long time. Watch for deer and elk. Didn't see any this time but have in the past.

M5 Guy M5/235C

I wonder if we can get a work party up there. Of course a grader and a roller would be better than anything from the sounds of it!

I spoke with a friend yesterday who landed and camped at Memaloose several times during the last ten days. He reported the strip is in pretty much the same condition this year as the last few, which is to say it needs work. That said, I have also camped and landed at Memaloose many times in the last few years in my C-182 and have never felt the least bit nervous about doing so in a tricycle-gear airplane. Ironically, the only instance in which anyone I know has had trouble with that strip was last week when another friend of mine got his C-185 seriously stuck in the mud at the north (downhill) end of the runway. Guess that means no matter what type of airplane you fly into Memaloose, you have to be careful.