I'll be camping at Gravelly valley tomorrow night. Feel free to stop by and bring your guns! 3 planes so far. Some camping and some just for the day.

might be able to get up there on the dawn patrol sunday.

I still have the ballet shoes on. How rough is it for little tires?

You will be fine with small tires. I have 8.00x6 tires and my friend will be flying his 170 up there with 6.00x6 tires. Also piperpainter will be flying up there with his Mooney so you have nothing to worry about.

Rob, I just got my Drift HD yesterday in the mail, and will be trying to shoot some video this weekend. Maybe I will try and join up. What time you heading over?

IF only I had gotten the annual complete today...instead I'm AOG

But I do want to get up there and go camping with y'all later this spring. Have a blast and do some plinking for me.

We plan on leaving here around 10am maybe.

260Driver wrote:IF only I had gotten the annual complete today...instead I'm AOG

But I do want to get up there and go camping with y'all later this spring. Have a blast and do some plinking for me.

Too bad Jeremy, we'll do it again I'm sure!

Gravelly Valley turned out to be a nice impromptu fly-in. We had a total of 9 planes with 3 staying the night.



We counted 12 elk after we landed


The first 4 planes us with our 170 and Tim in his 170 and Scott and Bill and his son in there 180s




Tim heading home


Bryan showed up next


NVflyer came in his 182 and made us a delicious dinner and breakfast too


Dave made the best camping breakfast I've ever had, huevos rancheros


Avidflyer and Bart made it in just as the fog broke up


Dave heading home










Paco flew in with his new S7

Looks like tons of fun. Now that I've seen some of these backcountry nasties in the flesh, it's fun to see them in the make believe internet. I'd be totally jealous if i found out Paco brought the G-Dec.

Here are my pics...great day of flying and you couldn't ask for better conditions besides the fog getting in there this morning. I poured in 12 gallons from Chevron this morning and I logged 3.6 on the hobbs

Onto the pics



Not long after I parked you can see the fog



Was greeted with the best Huevos Rancheros ever!! Thanks NVFlyer!



Aaron is his big tired 140



The campsite



Pretty sweet shot of Bryans Mooney



The Avid in it's favorite spot...Surrounded by brush!



NVFlyer blasting out



Overhead shot of camp



Rob in his 170



Got my camera out just a little too late





On approach to a gravel bar



DUCK





There was a bald eagle flying around overhead during this shot checking me out. One of those spots that makes you just look around and realize how lucky you are.





The only Backcountry Mooney Pilot I know. Yes this airplane has retractable landing gear.







On my way home

Looks like a great day for flying. I'm some what jealous Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

Looks like you guys had fun! I am looking forward to the next time. We were in the valley playing around by the Sutter Buttes and Colusa area, still trying to figure out my camera. I think I got it now and will try to post a video soon.

It truley was an awesome night. I mean the 6X5 accomadations might have been a little tight but we survived, and as Rob showed you with some amazing food! We of course had to go play and indeed we did. The picture Joey has of me on the gravel bar, yes I did a touch and go on it....for ya'll that know me this isn't unusual! Anyway, as the weather gets better we will probably have to do this more often so pay attention on Thurs/friday for Norcal/CA getaways! haha
Happy flying!

Rob about to ski...

And there he goes!


Joey... likes to make his own runway!


Dave's departure pull!


The groupe planes Saturday night and of course Jesse wanted to get in the picture!

Thanks for posting. Took all of that awful country and made it fun.

Solid work friends! Glad to see someone is getting some time off.

Today was a blast! Great meeting all of you for the first time, it's nice to finally put a face to the BCP "handle"!! Left King city this morning around 6AM not being sure that anybody would be there when I arrived...even asked blindly a few times on the radio enroute if there was any BCP'ers in the area just in case you guys had already left Luckily heard the "familiar" voices on the radio when I arrived...and the fog was only lightly obscuring the south part of the runway, of course I forgot to turn on my video camera for the arrival

Anyway, got a few pics in the process, some screenshots from the Contour cam:


Some early morning "hangar flying"


The Lineup


Patiently waiting for the fun parts


Dave heading out, sorry I missed the Huevos Rancheros...next time I hope!!


The fun part


AvidFlyer returning from the recon


Rob's 170


Camp wit Paco's S7 just before the "controlled chaos"

Thanks for the pictures and story line.

Rob

Thanks for posting the pics. Wish we could've stuck around for the fun!

Like tim55c and C180bill, looks like I missed out on the fun today! As if missing out on the beers, campfire and huevos rancheros weren't enough!

Managed to get over to meet up with the group around 3:30 in the afternoon, first time I'd landed at 1Q5. Pretty interesting approach landing south on 19.



Tim heading out



Saturday's group, before NVflyer (Dave) arrived, and right after Tim departed



Bill on his way back to KEDU



Awesome day!






Gettin out of Dodge.......



Heading home; Snow Mountain Wilderness Area covered in the white stuff.



Awesome spot to do some BCP camping and flyouts......Can't wait to do it again. Thanks Rob for posting this!

Flynengr

Here there Crew,

Sure enjoyed meeting up and camping out with you all. Thanks for posting the great pics.....get to re-live the fun times. I always enjoy camp cooking....and sharing the food makes it all the more fun....glad you all liked it, Thanks

Not sure if it got much press here....but the Backcountry Pilot group got some kudos from the RAF for jumping in and helping out at the Chicken Strip repair weekend.....they even used a picture of some oddball in front of his plane.

http://theraf.org/sites/default/files/r ... _16004.pdf

Looking forward to the next get-together!!

NVflyer Dave