PALH reporting wind 010 at 3 kts... Kodiak reporting 330 at 6 kts... I hope you Alaska guys are enjoying this.

Kodiak:


Kodiak:


Denali from Talkeetna (you can barely make it out):


Portage Glacier:


Sound the tuba...here's Portland:

Too bad Zane, just down the road here in NorCal it's a beautiful day! Yesterday kind of sucked, but it all seems to have blown through.

Vick wrote:Too bad Zane, just down the road here in NorCal it's a beautiful day! Yesterday kind of sucked, but it all seems to have blown through.

Well, we're still skiing powder here, buddy.

Sadly the powder's gone, though Squaw reported 3" a couple nights ago. When the sun's high though the corn is perfecto...

Yes, its been a beautiful week up here in AK. But, they are saying the next week or so is going to be rain/snow and clouds...

Here is a shot from last week.


And here is a week later.


Hasta ~

Bob K.
Anchorage, AK

And we've been having a bit of haze lately. I was thinking it was the annual spring dust from the traffic on the roads kicking up all the sand spread during the winter. Then I read the paper yesterday. Seems all the haze is supposed to be smoke from fires in Russia and (are you ready for this?) dust from windstorms in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia!!!!!! Holy Cripes!!!! Right now, I'm looking out of my office window in downtown Anchorage toward the north and west and can't see the mountains at all. I can usually see Mount Susitna, but today....mostly haze. Hope to get the buzzard back in the air on Saturday, weather permitting.

Haha, Hey Grouch, they say that were just now getting a "Global" society with technology & trade, little do they know we've been trading with Asia for centuries here with the wind!

Bob,
That looks like Willow and Goose Bay there, glad your getting out, drop a line sometime when you're out this way.

I think that as the spring (??? It's snowing like mad right now) comes on and the fish start moving, a sand bar/fishing/get together/bonfire/ reason to get out weekend should be planned for someplace in the Susitna Valley. Anyone interested?

3 inches new snow and still coming down

YM,

You are correct Sir ! (Willow and Goose Bay)

Now that the skies have opened up, it may be awhile before I get out... But I'd definitely be interested in a get-together this spring/summer !

My buddy in the Cub and I are planning a trip out to Western AK in late June for some wicked fly fishing.

We'll be heading down to Valdez for the Fly-In before then.

Hasta ~

Bob K.
Anchorage, AK

YELLOWMAULE wrote:...little do they know we've been trading with Asia for centuries here with the wind!

OT factoid I picked up on History Channel (???) a while back, but kinda' interesting: Back in the day, there were three competing schemes to connect the US and Europe by telephone. Two were trans-Atlantic cables and the third was going to span the narrow between Alaska and Russia, then run land-line to Europe. When the trans-Atlantic cable turned on, it won and the other projects were ready to abandon their work.

The Russians said finish the land-line, and we'll trade you for something you want -- Alaska. So we didn't so much buy Alaska from the Russians as trade for it...

Benton 25apr08

YELLOWMAULE wrote:I think that as the spring (??? It's snowing like mad right now) comes on and the fish start moving, a sand bar/fishing/get together/bonfire/ reason to get out weekend should be planned for someplace in the Susitna Valley. Anyone interested?

Put it somewhere an underpowered, underpiloted 170 can land, and I might come.

If I can get in, anyone in a tour bus could land there!

BTW all, open to suggestions! Maybe Richard, its time to start a new thread, cast about for opinions and have our own damn fly-in while everyone else is poking around Idaho whining about no more hot water for the shower at JC!

"Harumph!" (Mel Brooks style)

This is certainly not AK, and not even backcountry.... but unlike the rest of the world as we head for months of triple digit temps, our prime flying season is just winding down... ... Over the last couple nights (when I work) I have managed to fly through till sunrise, and I must admit it has been spectacular... even for the last job of the "night" in the work plane...
Thought I'd share Rob

Have close to 12 inches on the strip tonight that was bare gravel this morning ! And I thought ski season was over........

Summer sure gets shorter every year






paul @ ak66

Must be that Global Warming

Well, by the time I got up Saturday morning, there was about 20" of fresh snow on the deck. I walked outside to start clearing the junk only to find it was just over my knee (I'm 6'4"). Global warming my a*&*^. Got it cleared off the drive, and then off the plane.........for crissakes, this is late April!!!!! I don't care if it is Anchorage......this sucks!!!!!! I wanna go fly!!!!!!


Sorry.......had to get that whine out.

It's La Nina...the backlash of cold ocean waters in the east Pacific. They're giving us this long cold and wet spring. Then we'll see El Nino again, as the warm waters come back from Japan.

All I know is La Nina made for an great ski season.

Nice pics Rob!

95 degrees here today...Must be that global warming thing.... It's still 80 degrees now at 7 PM. Did one T & Go today and couldn't stand the heat.

Strip is all clear again....foot of snow gone as fast as it came?

Strange spring weather. Never had a chance to put skis on........

Now I'm ready for green stuff !

Hey GC, didja hear that? Sounds like the burble of Kings coming upstream! Must be Bear & Salmon season!!!