Put on my water wing's and flew down to Lake Powell in the floatplane with my son Tayson! It was a beautiful day on lake Powell, it felt like 80 degrees in the the sun, but the outside air temp. was indicating in the low 60's! We didn't see a boat or airplane all day on the lake while we were there, so we had the lake all to are selves!

Looking for a nice place to beach in Lake Powell!

Still looking for a nice place to beach on Lake Powell!

On the water! Taxing over to a nice sandy beach we found that should be in the sun all day with the views!

Kid's enjoy a a big sandy beach!

We found some big bird tracks in the sand!

Tayson climbing on the rocks!

Enjoying the views up on the rocks looking down at the floatplane and the nice beach we stayed at!

Lake Powell is a photographers paradise in my opinion! Navajo Mountain with the snow on it in the back ground in the picture!

A close-up picture of the floatplane on the beach with the beautiful reflections off the water!

Taxiing out from the beautiful beach we were on to takeoff! Looking forward to 40 mi. or so of canyon flying and doing touch and go's on the water while we head home!

Tayson took this picture while I was doing touch and go's on the the water on the way home!


It was a fun day trip leaving from the Salt Lake City area crossing over the Wasatch Mountains then on down over Capitol Reef National Park area to Lake Powell and back!

Sounds like a great trip!

Good stuff. Feels a little post-apocalyptic.

I agree that it was a great day for you. Thanks for posting.

Extremely cool.

Park Service freak out about it?

Nice! I live in Phoenix and really want to 'justify' an amphib plane.

Beautiful! Simply surreal.

I checked into it once, and as far as I can remember, it's perfectly legal to land float planes on lake Powell. It's listed in Utah as a amphibious base, or whatever the terminology is. But land 100 ft off the water on the shore, and you're in big trouble.

I've dragged my boat to Powell 9 times, and twice rented a houseboat. Great place!

Cary

Great shots James!

I hit Bear Lake again last week, a little different now then when we were down there The water was much harder then Lake Powell. It was pretty fun though going from water skiing to ice skating to snow skiing all within a few seconds!

amacbean wrote:I checked into it once, and as far as I can remember, it's perfectly legal to land float planes on lake Powell. It's listed in Utah as a amphibious base, or whatever the terminology is. But land 100 ft off the water on the shore, and you're in big trouble.

That is a pleasant surprise.

The National Recreation Area, which covers most of the Colorado river drainage has just a few minor restrictions on seaplanes operations without going into any details on it.Tom, most of the lakes and reserviors around here are either frozen or to cold to land on without having icing problems on the floats, so I have been going south, where it's warmer. That sounds like a lot of fun on skis going from water to snow or vise-versa! We will have to meet-up again at Bear Lake when it warms up a little!