A beautifull day today in Idaho. Two of us (Maule and SuperCub) flew down the Big Creek drainage. Big Creek, Dewey Moore, Mile High, Simonds, and Vines all looked great. Stopped at Cabin Creek for a break. Lots of hunters , no airplanes. No smoke !!



Idaho SuperCub

You just can't get any better flying weather than we've had the last few days....Flew into Red's Horse Ranch this morning and met the Baker City contingency in 3-other planes....pif_sonic and his C170, Mike and his Stinson and Brett and his student in his C172....what a place to take your student for short field take off and landing practice....

A bit chilly when we arrived at 9ish and got a fire going and sipped coffee and ate pif_sonic's donuts....then off to the horseshoe pit....Mike & I (the ole men) showed the young fellows how to flip horseshoes....We'll take on any challengers....The volunteers at Red's are gone so we gave the newspaper to a packer who was loading up some hunters that had just gotten flown in...What a fine day.....

I finally got home from working out of town all summer and got to do some flying, I needed to go to Yakutat for a moose hunt so watched the crappy weather closely. The day to go came and the weather looked good, loaded up and took off. All went well untill right at the top of the Tsirku glacier where I hit white out so back down.
Unloaded and tried to book commercial but they had cancelled the flight so re-loaded and flew to Juneau then unloaded and flew the jet to Yak.
Return leg was worse, my plane is stuck in Juneau and I had to take the ferry boat YUK> Now I need to get back down to Juneau to pick up the plane.
Good to fly again but frustrating as hell.

Shane

Hey CAVU/all,

Schellville is an awesome airport! I bought my Stearman from one of the guys up a few years back. One of those Stearman's is modded and ceritfied for 2 people up front.

If you get the chance, go down to Santa Paula this Sunday. They do "First Sunday's" there every month and it is a lot like Schellville. Privately owned with a lot of great classics: 2 Stearmans (mine incl), Bird-dogs, Pacers, Cubs, YAKs, C-195s, 1 Waco and many others. Typically, they'll also have a car or tractor show and the diner's pretty good as well. If you see a yellow N2S-1 there, the guys name is Cliff....great guy!

Chris

Two SuperCubs left McCall today with once again gourgous weather today. The altimeter setting was 30.30. Landed at Shearer, Moose Creek, and Dixie Town. There was a hunter camp at Shearer. Nice folks. The runway is wider now and smooth surface at Dixie town. Another great day in Idaho! Monday a trip to Hells Canyon to Tempererance Creek for lunch! Life is good.


Idaho Supercub

[quote="Idaho SuperCub"Another great day in Idaho! Monday a trip to Hells Canyon to Tempererance Creek for lunch! Life is good.


Idaho Supercub[/quote] Actually for you,ISC, life is great....How I would love to have been a third plane in your group. I bet Idaho is spectacular this time of the year. Hope to some year plan a flying hunting trip to Idaho, for upland bird hunting and maybe some Turkey...

Last spring my wife and I flew to Moab for a few days hiking, and enroute we landed at Eureka, NV, which is home of the annual Mother's Day fly-in. It was about a week after Mother's Day, but Jen was the first female pilot to land for the blessed event, so she got a trophy.

She was only a student pilot at the time, so she promised to come back when she got her wings. With perfect weather this week, we decided to fly over and she could earn her trophy. As usual, I got to sit in the right seat...

Eureka is at the limits of our x-country endurance, and Jen did some extensive flight planning, finally deciding we could make it without stopping and still have enough fuel reserve to keep me from getting grumpy. She did a good job...she calculated 2:58 flight time and we pulled up to the Eureka pumps at exactly 3:00 hours.

There were cloud decks at about 10,000 feet which had us doing some maneuvering around mountain ranges. Flying a small plane in Nevada is always interesting...fuel stops are few and far between, and the topography and military airspace conspire to make flying a direct line unlikely, at least in a 140. Once in Eureka we were met by the live-in FBO husband and wife team, Vincie and John. They are two of the friendliest people you could hope to meet, and after fueling up and tying down, they gave us a ride into town.

Eureka is a very small, very cute little town. It's a high altitude mining town well past it's prime, but not in complete decay. It's damn close to a ghost town with a resident population. We were hoping to stay at the historic Jackson House, a hotel over a saloon, but it was closed for the winter. That left us with the Best Western, which surprised the crap out of me by being quite nice, at least for a Best Western in BFE.

After a couple beers and a game of pool at the Owl Club we went to the grocery store (resplendent with more stuffed heads than a taxidermy shop) and bought the fixings for dinner. The stunningly clear night air and the smell of juniper fires took me back 20 years to when I was a BLM firefighter stationed in Mountain Springs.

The next morning we got a walking tour guide of Eureka from the hotel desk and set out on foot. You can walk from one end of town to the other in about fifteen minutes, but there's enough old buildings and historical sights to keep you busy for a couple hours. Three of the principle attractions are the renovated play house, the Eureka museum, and the Court House (no guns allowed).

After spending a couple hours seeing the town we went back to the hotel and a handyman gave us a ride out to the airport. The flight back home was so smooth we could trim the plane by leaning forward or backward.

The fact that we were there on a couple of perfect fall days probably helps, but I really enjoyed my visit to Eureka. I've always been a big fan of Nevada, and it's a real treat to be able to fly to another world in three short hours.

Left Troutdale flew over the coast range to Newport. Then south down the coast to Gold Beach

Had lunch. Short walk. Back to Troutdale.
4 hours flight time.


Cheers...Rob

Iceman,

You are welcome any time. And yes, the wx is great right now. Nice cool air to fly in. I was in Warren today. Fire damage all around, fortunately, only two small cabins lost.


IdahoSuperCub

Troutdale to Selitz Bay is a 1.6 Hr round trip. Smooth air, great visability, good food at The Side Door Cafe. The cafe is across the street from the runway. Cheers...Rob

Idaho SuperCub wrote:Iceman,

You are welcome any time. And yes, the wx is great right now. Nice cool air to fly in. I was in Warren today. Fire damage all around, fortunately, only two small cabins lost.


IdahoSuperCub

Got a long winter and a few "minor" repairs to complete, then I'll be there probably for the fly in and to resume my Fly fishing career.Thanks for the invite, am lookiing forward to sharing a few beers with the BCP'ers, although I know Zane won't be there.

Our strip is finally dry enough to use so I decided to try out the new exhaust and rebuilt mags.

Left here went to Yerington then Lovelock from there on to Denio then Alvord for a touch and go.
4.5hrs later back home the wife had the hanger open so I taxied right inn and was handed a cold beer, what a great day.

Three planes at fields, one landed on the road the other two on the strip.

Denio is in much better shape this time compared to last.

Gas was $3.85 at Lovelock

Two SuperCubs left today from McCall for Hells canyon. Absolutely clear cold smooth air. (Altimeter MYL 30.30) We spotted 10 mountain goats on the Idaho side on the sheer walls right around the Hells Canyon dam. We continued down stream past Sluice Creek. It was totally devastated by fire. Big Bar , Temperance Creek, looked good as well as Pittsburg. Flew on to Grangeville and borrowed the five dollar courtesy car and got lunch. Flew back to MYL over Slate Creek and Riggins. Another great day before the snow comes !

Idaho SuperCub

Just got back from 1.2 Hr of practice. Power on and off stalls, 45 degree turns, and slow flight. Did 6 wheel landings. I'm real good at them if I'm by myself. It looks like 1 more day of gorgeous weather, then a down turn.
Cheers...Rob

Did a great round trip around LakeTahoe, and the weather could not be better. That's the reason that I enjoy the world of flight. 1.3 hrs and back home and a beer @ chevys to make it a perfect reprieve from the everyday B.S.

A friend of mine was looking at a 310 in Indiana and wanted me to go along to look it over. We took a smoker to Chicago, rented a car and drove to Auburn IA. It seemed to be a good plane. We brought it back to WA and then my buddy took it on to AK. Perfect weather the whole way, the plane ran fine and all in all a very entertaining trip.....

Did a quick trip to Death Valley last weekend via Mammoth Pass. There's a little snow in the high Sierra. There's no ice on the lakes yet, at least below 10k. Visibility was great and the view of Yosemite is always worth a 5 minute detour.

We rode bikes around Furnace Creek, down to Golden Canyon, up around the Borax works etc. The 49er encampment was gearing up--hundreds of huge RVs filled the (normally vacant) parking lot at Furnace Creek.

A bunch of 150/152 guys were having a fly-in. There were some nice-looking airplanes. Gas was under $5--I guess they hadn't been reading the news much, as there's usually a premium charge there considering the distance.

My Garmin 296 went tango/uniform over the Sierra on the way over. Fortunately, there's no restricted airspace around and it's kind of hard to get lost in this basin/range topography.

I do feel better flying that route with the ACR 406 PLB on my person. I showed my wife and son how to work it again before we took off. It made my wife nervous, but I don't think of ignorance as bliss when it comes to survival.

All in all, it was a great getaway, made possible only by magic wings.

CAVU

Nowhere I'm by PDX NW Oregon

Finally cooled off here in Arizona, the really fun flying starts now for me.

No words to describe the thrill of flying through Monument Valley.

Saw the yellow AirCam parked at the AZ Minerals strip in Monument Valley and knew these would be my kind of guys. Landed for a visit with Gene and Skip and glad I did, couple of interesting young men.

Camped at Gateway Colorado two nights and really enjoyed the car museum and hiking. Highly reccomend visiting this place.

Red Butte Az was home to a dozen Ford Trimotors for Grand Canyon flights starting in 1927. Lots of prairie dog burrows here not sure I would
land here again.
Can not wait till the next flying adventure!

I did 2.5 hrs in a nice 182 around the north sac. valley yesterday(sat.).
About 8 to/lgs at oroville,ca . Good cfi that gave me the run through on a great day.