Flyhound wrote:..........Hey Hotrod180, was that Chris's daughter you took for a ride, or another waitress at the café?

Yup, Chris's daughter Summer.

rw2 wrote:

"We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!!"

Hey RW2 - Rich, your path looks like a hound dog zig zagging around a scent. Did you have ulterior motives for the various points, or did weather push you around? Is the weather a tad bit nicer in Mexico than it was in the Midwest?

well guys not so much a where did I fly today as oppose to a where did I fly on saturday, and then be really slack and take my time getting around to posting it.

went for 150nm burn around my area. tyragrah, up the coast to Pottsville, over to and around mount warning, over Toonumbar dam, down to casino, and then back to Tyagrah via Evans Head.

got a few shots along the way I thought I may as well share with you

the view to the north and the view to the south of Tyagrah





approaching mount warning. at all of 4000 feet you fellows over that side of the pond would more likely call it bump warning, but they dont get a whole lot bigger over here!



the border ranges





Now stupidly I didn't think to get any photos of Toonumbar dam, as its a beautiful spot and one of my all time favorite fishing locations. Well stocked with Australian Bass. Though I have always wished I could find a spot to land there. I spotted this site about 6 months ago and thought it would just be mushy. Though when out there on the boat fishing a couple of weeks ago i decided to pull up and have a look to find its dry and solid! a perfect runway.



Now of course I completely respect the civil aviation spoiler, I mean safety authorities laws that say landing off runway is dangerous and therefor illegal, and as a result would never say I where to partake in such an activity nor post photos or videos of my aircraft doing it, I mean thats something I of course would never consider doing at all......but I will say this much........it was fish for dinner! Them bass jump high!



so next leg was a run to the town of casino for a leg stretch an a quick cup of tea with a mate.







and then a trip east back over the ranges



I didn't think to get any shots of the Evans head part of the trip which was silly as its a stunning area. but I did get a nice shot of the strip when turning final, love that view



all in all not a bad few hours in the drifter on a stinking hot summers day!

I think we might go fishing next time I visit Tyagarah ....

aussie bob wrote:I think we might go fishing next time I visit Tyagarah ....

I think your right, do you cast a line down there much?

SixTwoLeemer wrote:...I'm jelly of your blue sky. Every time I've been to Texas its been 102 degrees and skies as grey as a goose =P

Just for you SixTwoLeemer, more blue sky.

Hadn't been to these areas in a while so did a lot of scouting for new wires and fences, that's why I don't land a lot of the "runways" you'll see.

Flyhound wrote:Hey RW2 - Rich, your path looks like a hound dog zig zagging around a scent. Did you have ulterior motives for the various points, or did weather push you around? Is the weather a tad bit nicer in Mexico than it was in the Midwest?

As a former Basset Hound owner I did have to chuckle at that analogy!

Weather was fabulous. In eight days of calendar and sixteen hours of flying I was delayed once for a few hours by weather and had smooth skies for all but 45 minutes. Just ridiculously good luck.

Chicago: Start of the journey and where we are from.

St. Louis: Hanging out with new friends who organized a demonstration of our detailing products to their community.

Nashville: Hanging out with old friends and a new friend, the latter of which will be coming to Mexico in a few weeks to play our music festival to raise funds for a local children's charity (http://magictownmusic.org/?page_id=74)

(insert 6 hours of weather delay here)

Dallas: Friend got a new Beaver and we went flying to do some air to air photography so he had something nice to hang on his wall. Also got to have dinner with a Nicaraguan expat friend I made online who has been tutoring me in spanish and took him up for his first ride in a little plane.

McAllen: I know no one in McAllen and didn't have time to fly all the way to my final destination without flying in the mountains at night. I'm not going to do that, so option 2 would have been flying into Tampico and staying there for the night, but Tampico is a super industrial city in Tamaulipas, which has a crime problem*. Stopping there for fuel doesn't pose a risk, the military keeps things under control on-campus. I wouldn't want to go walking around outside the fence though.

Tampico: Fuel stop and clearing customs. The staff here was fabulous. Unlike some Mexican airports, all the offices you need to deal with to come into the country are in one hallway just steps from each other. Everyone was helpful and got me on my way pretty quickly.

(insert 45 minutes of bumpy flying, at midday, in the mountains, here)

Leon: My airport in Celaya is closed for maintenance for the moment, so I stopped instead in Leon for ten days or so of parking. My buddy Rusty picked me up and drove me to San Miguel de Allende where we've spent the bulk of the past couple years.



* Sad story: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/ ... -the-trees

Not exactly backcountry... but did a bit of concrete jungle flying yesterday. Flew down the Long Island coast, then the Hudson River SFRA. A bit intense, but fun!

bigrenna wrote:Not exactly backcountry... but did a bit of concrete jungle flying yesterday. Flew down the Long Island coast, then the Hudson River SFRA. A bit intense, but fun!

Just thinking of that kinda of flying gives me the heebie-jeebies

Glass.

Flight of two (Bearhawk and Super Cub) doing some off airport flying in Morgan, UT:

http://youtu.be/G6eTsd6tS5g?list=UUrVEqQiTyebJpz9vL_5VhEQ

Beahawk Landing & Take Off on Huntsville, UT Farm Strip:

http://youtu.be/YqQuS_6wSJA?list=UUrVEqQiTyebJpz9vL_5VhEQ

Lakes patrol... 30's and no snow... lots of blue light last night.




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BRD wrote:

I could have used that placard a couple of times

Might have to copy that.

Scouting a new place today.

Dodged some clouds in a Blackhawk today, then a snow storm rolled through, then the sky cleared up again. It was a weird day for weather.

One of the benefits of the Texas drought. We had lots of new landing areas out near Del Rio when I left there in 2013.

CamTom12 wrote:Dodged some clouds in a Blackhawk today, then a snow storm rolled through, then the sky cleared up again. It was a weird day for weather.

Only a Blackhawk today? What a drag.

Brett