Another beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest! Temp was 10* and density altitude was -1800!
Elk on the ridge behind my house:


Mission Ridge looking west at the Cascades/Mt. Stuart:

Mt Adams and Mt Rainier:

Scouting the Columbia and Quilomene for a weekend bird hunt:

Those cold, snow covered, clear days are magical.

Some days it just all comes together, despite shattering my ipad on the ramp getting the plane loaded. Enjoying spring break with my buddies!

Hard to beat the looks of an old straight tail Cessna. Looks like a good way to spend spring break.

Great pic with those wildflowers and the little dudes.

Always great to share adventures with the kiddies, right?

Cary

Some random iphone shots of some fall flying this week. Each of my boys got about an hour seat time. I'm amazed at their ability at such a young age. I'm gonna need two more airplanes!

Jeredp,

We need to get together and fly and hunt some birds. Almost identical airplanes and performance. I'm just the other side of the hill on Hwy 2. I have access to Pheasant area in the Palouse and a few quail areas in Moses Lake.

Jughead

Nice pix; thanks for posting. Love them elk; where do you live? And your boys are precious and will be flying left seat in no time.

Blue skies,

Tom

jugheadF15 wrote:Jeredp,

We need to get together and fly and hunt some birds. Almost identical airplanes and performance. I'm just the other side of the hill on Hwy 2. I have access to Pheasant area in the Palouse and a few quail areas in Moses Lake.

Jughead

That would be awesome! I'm up for both! Send me a pm when you get the urge to come over to the dry side!

A good friend of mine started texting me over the weekend from Moose Creek Idaho. He graciously volunteers to man the ranger station there every april. He was planning on flying out when he had a bad oil pressure indication on his 182. After a couple days of satellite text messages(Delorme Inreach is a life saver) I was fairly convinced that his problem was a bad pressure sensor. So I had a new sensor overnighted to me from JPI, I loaded up my trusty old square tail with most of my tool box, a mechanical gauge, and probably most of what a guy would need to overhaul an O-470; and I set course for 1U1 at 3:00 yesterday afternoon. After a beautiful 3 hour flight below some scattered layers, I made it to Moose. Our troubleshooting proved to be right, I replaced the sensor, verified oil pressure, and we were good to go! I stayed the night there and we headed for home this morning. What an awesome adventure! These are the days I'm so grateful for what I have. So cool to be able to help a friend in need and have a great adventure. I love Moose Creek and will return!


This is my I don't do selfies, happy mechanic face. Yes thats oil on face!

Nice work!

Unbelievable scenery man, love the photos, A lot different than what I see thanks for posting.

Awesome Saturday morning read over coffee! Nice work my friend. Hope all is good your way. Weather and Work has slowed flying a bit, that should change soon. [emoji1303][emoji1063][emoji41]


Rod Hilton
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What a great friend! Lucky guys.