Flew out some groceries today! The airplane is completely covered in blood, millions of flies in the windshield, bent the crap out of my remaining interior getting the head in there. It was awesome! Lovein this 182.

Awesome!!

groceries!

Been waiting for this spot to become dry enough to be land-able. It's the bottom (almost) of Lake Travis - you can see what's left of the lake in the background. My airport is up above the lake right above the cockpit. It's still near a 100 degrees here so I'm wearing short pants. When I stepped out to take pictures there was a decided "buzz" everywhere. Tens of thousands of honey bees gathering nectar/pollen. Hard to put that out of your mind while walking all around amounst them with bare legs.

Lake is about 60' low so everything you see behind the plane should be underwater as well. With hunting season getting under way I'm loosing a lot of my off-airport spots. Lake bottoms may be it for awhile.

Did a lot of flying last month and none of it was fun, Flew by ferry boat to JNO then to SETAC then Portland then Pasco then Pasco to portland to boise then boise to pasco to portland to seatac to juneau to Haines.
Nearly all of it in aluminum sausage tubes with all the other livstock.UGH.
I have the opposite problem of some of you, I want to fly my own plane down south and fly around there some, the trouble is the disctance and the cost is just as bad going south/north as it is going north/south.

Oh well, Obama is going to make it all be OK just take this pill and repeat over and over I believe, I believe

made it over to Weatherby USFS for the first time. Sun is in just the wrong spot to land up river there at near sunrise. Felt like I was the ant under the magnifying glass. I'm coming back here with my fishing pole.

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Took a gentleman's 180 from Buffalo, WY down to the Hole in the Wall, yes, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Hole in the Wall. Flew up Outlaw Canyon on the southern end of the Bighorn Mountains, then up the spine until we were about 10 miles south of Buffalo, hopped off the ridge line and shot a landing back into Buffalo. Just bebopping around for a little over an hour, but it was one of those cloudless, calm, mid 70 degree days. It was perfect for turning money into noise.

Took the wife to Friday harbor for the first time! Flew by downtown Seattle and then up to the island. We rented a car and drove all around the Island. (Car was about $59 for 24hrs). Had dinner at a place right near the harbor and then flew back. It was a good day indeed!


Mt Baker

Baker in the background!

Lime Kiln Point State Park

Seattle on the way home!


Only 86 days till this is my home again too!

Lunch on the beach today...

Joewcasey wrote:Took a gentleman's 180 from Buffalo, WY down to the Hole in the Wall, yes, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Hole in the Wall. Flew up Outlaw Canyon on the southern end of the Bighorn Mountains, then up the spine until we were about 10 miles south of Buffalo, hopped off the ridge line and shot a landing back into Buffalo. Just bebopping around for a little over an hour, but it was one of those cloudless, calm, mid 70 degree days. It was perfect for turning money into noise.

ok I want pix of hole in the wall.... I've seen it in books and publications and a real high air photo but I want to see the trail up from the valley which is actually the trail used by Butch and others....

PAMR MX wrote:Flew out some groceries today! The airplane is completely covered in blood, millions of flies in the windshield, bent the crap out of my remaining interior getting the head in there. It was awesome! Lovein this 182.

Great picture! Great way to use that 182!

iceman wrote:

Joewcasey wrote:Took a gentleman's 180 from Buffalo, WY down to the Hole in the Wall, yes, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Hole in the Wall. Flew up Outlaw Canyon on the southern end of the Bighorn Mountains, then up the spine until we were about 10 miles south of Buffalo, hopped off the ridge line and shot a landing back into Buffalo. Just bebopping around for a little over an hour, but it was one of those cloudless, calm, mid 70 degree days. It was perfect for turning money into noise.

ok I want pix of hole in the wall.... I've seen it in books and publications and a real high air photo but I want to see the trail up from the valley which is actually the trail used by Butch and others....

The wife is going off to church this morning, the weather seems good again, so I guess it looks like a perfect opportunity to take the boy and get those.

Joewcasey if you're heading north on the bighorns picture of the start of Crazy Woman Canyon would also be good to see lived there at Caribou Lodge when I was a kid

JDW wrote:Joewcasey if you're heading north on the bighorns picture of the start of Crazy Woman Canyon would also be good to see lived there at Caribou Lodge when I was a kid

Sorry, got your post after we got back, and I don't seem to have any from past trips either. Sorry. As for Hole in the Wall, here's what I got, bear in mind it's taken with a camera phone.


On our way down.


Taken from the east, looking west into Outlaw Canyon, this is west of Kaycee, WY.


The approach into Outlaw Canyon, we are at about 6500 MSL here.


Looking down into the canyon.


Just above the canyon rim.


More in the canyon. Very rugged down there.


The trail in question. Forgot the name. This is on the south rim.


The trail comes down the canyon up by where the road approaches the edge, and it winds its way down through the trees in a series of switchbacks and is very steep.

It's no wonder the law never could catch him.. given the topography of where he and his cohorts hid out here and in Utah around Moab.....thanks for the tour.... have read just about every publication on the wild bunch and Cassidy and flew all around his haunts in Utah but haven't been to Hole in the wall....

You should make the trip, it's very much worthwhile. Give me a heads up and u can crash, so to speak, at our place.

Out doing one of my favorite things with some of my favorite people.

No non-predators were harmed in the making of this post.

Few more shots from running over to Gooseberry on Saturday: Part 1




non-ethanol high test fuel at Point Narrows




Breezy Point runway

Gooseberry Saturday: Part 2



Jim brought me a quart of 15W-50 from the hangar

Diane practicing for going back to Naples...

Aqua float Cubs


Rory ready to roll out



Pelicans going south

Rory going south


Pontoon with twin 300 Mercs

Dinner cruiser on Gull

Craig trying to rescue a Pacer project:

I flew a little over 100 miles to bill a contractor for crane work done the previous days. Only after I handed him the bill (and landed 4 or 5 sites on the way there and 3 on the way back) did I realize I could have just mailed it. The Grant Teton out in the distance. One of the other sites: Getting closer, only a couple miles away now: Finally, at the job site: