I've been wanting to fly up to Weed and get some shots of my plane with Shasta in the background for a while. The last time I drove down I-5 I took a pic of my truck there and was hooked. I had to be home by 3pm today so it was a pretty quick trip. I took off early and headed up. You could not have asked for a nicer flying day. We've had a strong onshore wind for almost week around here. At 7500ft the wind was 3kts today. I never hit the slightest bump all day. It was just shy of 400NM up there and back and I logged 5.8hours on the Hobbs. It was a pretty whirlwind trip but the views were pretty awesome. I will be going back and spending some time up there for sure.

These guys were having some fun playing on the River





Can anyone tell me what the story is on this thing..It's in Redding



Shasta Lake.. Glad to see the water is back up somewhat



This thing is just awesome



On the way there







Poser shots

Hey Joey, hasn't anyone told you 2-strokes are unreliable and not fit for an airplane??? I guess you havn't got the word, what with flying up to J.C. and all!

Looks like a fun trip, hard to take a bad picture of Mt. Shasta, we got the same problem with the Grand Tetons.

Very cool Joey!! Great pics and sure did look like a great day for flying!! It is great to see the water level back up.

courierguy wrote:Hey Joey, hasn't anyone told you 2-strokes are unreliable and not fit for an airplane??? I guess you havn't got the word, what with flying up to J.C. and all!

Looks like a fun trip, hard to take a bad picture of Mt. Shasta, we got the same problem with the Grand Tetons.

Well they usually run awesome right up till they quit 110 hours in the past 7 months of the funnest flying I've done in the past 5 years..I'll take my chances

AvidFlyer wrote:

courierguy wrote:Hey Joey, hasn't anyone told you 2-strokes are unreliable and not fit for an airplane??? I guess you havn't got the word, what with flying up to J.C. and all!

Looks like a fun trip, hard to take a bad picture of Mt. Shasta, we got the same problem with the Grand Tetons.

Well they usually run awesome right up till they quit 110 hours in the past 7 months of the funnest flying I've done in the past 5 years..I'll take my chances

So that's why you were waaay up there at 7.5?

Forgot to add my video

Very kewl pix.

That white dammit in Redding is the "Sundial Bridge" - erected by our fair city to encourage tourism. It is nice for a pedestrian bridge and right next to Turtle Bay. Fly into Benton and take a cab.

I have to admit I was a skeptic about the bridge, but I work up and down the west coast and people ask me about it all the time. Dunno how many tourist dollars it generates, but people do know about it.

Thanks I knew someone on here would know the story behind it.