For the Tapatalk-only crowd, another great writeup by our own Northernguy.

http://www.backcountrypilot.org/news/articles/featured-trip-reports/summer-travels-in-canada-arctic

The part about the gravel shielded 737 was cool. That was a great trip report. The king air C-90s are sweet little twins.

That was a great story.

Thanks for rotating these on the home page Zane or I may have missed it.

I need to do a little more digging on this site to find similar story's from the past.

Beautiful ride you have there!

Nice to see some real backcountry again. Getting tired of reading about beer drinkers hoping to impress somebody at Johnson Creek.

Keep this site backcountry! Thanks Zane.

8GCBC wrote:Keep this site backcountry! Thanks Zane.

Thanks Ted and Rob. Number one goal for this site is to connect people, but right behind that are sharing knowledge and inspiring people with organized content that is the very narrow niche of backcountry/bush flying. Stories like this from Northernguy fall into that latter category. Few of us will likely ever get the opportunity to pilot ourselves to Nunavut, and so reading about it makes for a great flight from the comfort of the desk.

Sorry to sound like a PBS fundraiser, but stories like this are only 10% me. I proofread, edit, format images and put it into a nice package, but 90% of it is the awesome people here who have done it and are willing to write about it, like MTV, Northernguy, Learntolandshort, Steve's Aircraft, Jamee Wallis, Blackrock, Shorton, Grassstrippilot, Mountainmatt, and anyone else I've missed who's taken several hours out of their life to write. And writing is usually not easy.

My email has always been the same: [email protected]. Anyone can shoot me a note if they want to work up an article or series or whatever. The pay is poor but you usually get at least a minute of unquantifiable fame.

I am having a hard time trying to learn how to fly skis! MTV helped with the fundamentals and was a confidence builder!

Good guidance!