Friday, 25th, I flew from Vale, OR. to Aero Acres ( Oregon City, OR.) I thought there might be a problem with some weather in the Hermiston, OR. area. I had to drop a friend off there. But, it turned out ok. The flight took us over Sumpter, OR. the back side(WEst) Of the Anthony Lakes ski resort, The mountains were covered with snow and made for a beautiful flight. When I left Hermiston and flew down the Columbia river I started seeing the mountains, first Mt. Adams in Washington state, then Mt. St. Helens, and finally Mt. Hood. The flight down the Columbia River gorge was very scenic, and all in all a nice flight. If it wasn't for the head wind it would have been perfect. Bob

In November '06, my wife and I took a vacation to New Zealand and Fiji. Thought you might like to see one of the pics...the rest are in my album. Flew a 206 on straight floats off Lake Rotarura, NZ. Nice place, but the actual city stunk...literally. It smelled from the natural hot springs nearby. Would highly recommend the south island near Queenstown. Looked like maybe Tahoe 40 yrs ago. Enjoy.

Hope this works. If not, they're in my album.



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Flew home from Aero Acres ( above Oregon City) with a stop in Hermiston HRI to pick up a friend. Nice flight about 350 miles 2 1/2 hours. No problems. Bob

I flew with Jeremy and Kim from Angwin (2O3) to Hyampom(H47) by way of Clearlake, Gravelly Valley (Lake Pillsbury), Snow Mountain and down the South Fork of the Trinity River to visit a friend's old fishing and hunting Ranch. Still snow on many of the mountains and lots of water in the rivers. They have room for an airstrip on their ranch next to the river so maybe someday we'll fly direct. Everybody else drove there at 5.5 hrs. plus; we took less than 1.5 hrs. The joy of flying!

Flew out to Cashmere WA over the weekend. I'll post more on that later.

I wanted to give a shout out to Rob B. and BCP in general. Thought I was having engine trouble. Turned out to be pilot trouble/stupidity. Ended up spending the night in Ellensburg. Thanks to BCP I was able to call Rob and bounce some ideas off of him. It sure meant a lot for peace of mind. I finally figured out what was going on and had an uneventful trip back.

Craig

Craig, always glad to help a brother pilot. I'm glad you fixed the problem so I didn't have to come get you.

Regards...Rob

So,
What was going wrong?

This past weekend I went in circles and it felt good!

After a long hiatus due to winter, having my carburator rebuilt, and completing my annual it felt wonderful to just do pattern work at my home turf field. Knock off the rust so to speak.

Nothing beats a taildragger on a grass field!

a64pilot wrote:So,
What was going wrong?

Brain fart. I have these moments too.

I'll let Craig elaborate if he cares to.

Rob

RobBurson and donknee and Terry

The original plan was Copalis beach. To much fog. When the fog was gone the tide was in. Maybe next week.

Troutdale, Or. Chehalis, Wa. Elma, Wa. 1000" turf. had lunch. Then on to a pvt turf strip SW of OLM. Then east of OLM to 44T Hoskins turf with golf courses on both ends. Then back to KTTD.

donknee was a great guide and a fine pilot.




My M7


44T Hoskins field



2.8 hours 3 turf 1 paved Damage None.

Rob Burson came up to Olympia and I brought a friend along who bought the burgers and took photos from my plane of Rob's and from Rob's plane of mine...so we got some new *in air* photos.

Just when I thought I had it all figured out...............







Wow! I did it!

I hope you have a magnifying glass!

I'll do better next time.

First business trip of the season to Skagway, Janis went over to get papers in order and I flew over and picked her up. Our lake is ice free now so we will run tours next week. Saw one mtn goat down pretty low near pullen creek

Flew to tahoe last week from Durango. Was thwarted by high wind in St. George UT, 16 knots straight across, but I got it down, which is a record for me. The next day made it all the way by 9am, what a beautiful place to fly into (South Lake Tahoe).

Sunday , I dodged rain drops and clouds to get over Spooner Summit and out of the lake, stopped in Tonopas for the night and back to Durango the next day.

Its the longest I've taken the little rebel and it did well, next time I'll get brave enough to land on some lake beds in NV.

Thanks to lowrider for the good local advice.
-Brad

Durango Rebel wrote: next time I'll get brave enough to land on some lake beds in NV.

Just don't post any MotorcityMaule kinda "dry" lakebed photos. I don't even ride my fourwheeler out on them without letting someone else be the test pilot first. That 1/4 inch dry crust can look real inviting from the air, and be a bottomless mud pit underneath.

Gump

Hi All; Just got into Kodiak city after a week in western Kodiak. Got snowed on rained on wind at gail force nothing new ceilings getting back at 500, rain and snow showers , had the best time of my life camping in a tent. Flying in western Kodiak for that matter anywhere is breath takeing. Hope to make it home to ANC Tomarow but doesn't look real good. Still loving it !

Yet more ski flying...

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Snoopydoc and I had a couple days off so we flew over to Gravely Valley and spent the night camping on the side of the runway. Saw a couple tule elk on the runway, which is in pretty good shape despite all the yahoo's on their quads spinning cookies when it's wet.

Near as I can tell there aren't any tie-downs on the field at all, and you'd need a pretty stout piece of iron to pound into the rocky ground. We settled for pushing our 170 into a gap in the brush and chalking the tires. Despite being only 1900 feet, the trees were a good five to six weeks behind Auburn. There is still snow on the mountains surrounding the field.

Fishsniffer says where the creek comes into the reservoir is premium bluegill fishing...about a twenty minute flat walk from the runway. We didn't do any fishing (you're not supposed to eat them anyway...mercury), since we arrived rather late and left sort of early.

After departing we flew over to Willits for some gas (only $4.99!), and since it was clear we continued over to the coast. We flew down the coast to Ocean Ridge and then went inland and landed at Boonville. Strange place that. It was real windy so we just taxied back and took off again and flew home.

Hammer,

I fly into Boonville once in a while for a quick lunch (or even a haircut). It's only a mile walk into town and the General store deli on the left has good sandwiches and salads. There is also the Andersen Valley Brewing Co. at the other end of town (Poleeko Gold!) You might even meet someone who speaks "Boontling".

John