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Nice looking 182 Adam has there! That is an adventure machine for sure.

Kurt

Put Mary Alverson's Super Cub back in the water yesterday. Another summer of float ratings begins!





Too cold to fall in

Finally finished up my CFI-G this weekend.... not quite backcountry flying. But plenty of grass strips and the occasional off airport landing when you have to land out on an XC [emoji6]

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I passed a CSES checkride at Wip’s almost exactly (10) years ago in May in Mary’s Cub. Glad it’s still in good shape.

jlacharite wrote:Finally finished up my CFI-G this weekend.... not quite backcountry flying. But plenty of grass strips and the occasional off airport landing when you have to land out on an XC [emoji6]

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Congratulations ! I love glider flying, I had a nice glider in the mid 90's, I miss it.

Kurt

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I scoped out some bike trails in an area about 30 miles away I've only ridden once before, and on the way back, crushed some Indian Paint Brush on a site I land every spring when the wildflowers are up. When I look at a bike ride trail, I am low, and only follow it far enough to ensure it looks like a interesting ride, but i never follow it too far as I want to be surprised when I go back and ride it. When I do go back to ride, I may find a place to land. Then, when I go back to land the place I found on the ride, after finding the ride with the plane to start with, I may see ANOTHER trail to ride.....this has happened more then once.

The landing was interesting, due to the sideslope/ one wheel touching down first, combined with a cross wind, and the slope. This was the least sloped upper part of the LZ, Kind of a cross wind uphill side slope thing.

Yesterday was a great morning to fly up the Sierras via Yosemite to Lake Tahoe, hoping to do some exploring via air the next few days. KTSP to KTVL is a 2.5hr flight in my Pacer instead of a 6hr drive!

Somewhere on the Tanana River, Alaska. Looks like a white sand beach!

To work.

Hey!!! my thread just went over a half a million!!! I think that's cool. Keep it up, I like to see where everyone is flying!!
Thanks
Shane

That's a pretty cool number.

Nowhere today but a lovely trip up the coast to Port Hardy and then Bella Coola (well Denny Island actually which is right next door) two weeks ago.

Cool Grummans at Hardy, and a good looking beach on the way North but I was on a schedule.

A 65 mile flight to Alpine Wyoming, for the umpteenth time, but something different: a 25 mile ride (round trip) up the canyon that the Gray River runs through.

The Box Y dude ranch (http://www.boxylodge.com/) is up there, a place I had flown into a few years back after it's owner had contacted me concerning solar power, as it's off the grid. He was surprised when I offered to "stop by," not knowing I had a skiplane. He cautioned me before giving permission for me to fly in, in that the Husky/Aviat crew had talked about flying in there for a publicity shoot, but ONLY if a minimum of 2,000' of runway was groomed for them. I told him that was not required for my bird, and landed in the untracked deep as hell powder, a fun trip. Though it WAS very close to being too deep etc., I of course wanted to rub the noses of the Aviat ski fliers in the snow a bit

I had a vague idea of checking in there again, on the eMontague this time, but after 12 miles or so, and the start of of the gravel road becoming real soft. almost muddy, I decided to make a 180 and head back down to Alpine and hit the Yankee Doodle cafe for breakfast. I was back home by 10:30, just another day in paradise. There is of course no audio in this still picture, but let me tell you, that river was roaring. The eMontague/S-7S combo continues to amaze me, total fuel burn for this flight was 7.2 gallons of regular/low octane mogas, and the electricity to charge the ebike battery was provided by the Rotax en-route, thanks to a 12 VDC to 52 VDC converter.


How's this for a curt car?!

Evening patrol. The Space Station went over while I was hanging out by the fire.



iphone's don't take great shots at night when zoomed..

About 45 miles to the south and back. On a crane job yesterday the contractor was telling me about the very expensive and trick folding doors the large custom home we were working on will have to access the deck, they open up to a 21' span. The glass shop that supplied them mentioned only one other customer ever had used them. I asked who and was told it was a certain very well known national radio personality, and his Idaho vacation home/retreat was "thataway," that narrowed it down to a few hundred square miles.

That's all I needed, today I went looking, and sure enough there was a new large home in a nice private area, on NOT high dollar ground but just rural grazing ground. The owner picked well, mucho privacy, way off the beaten path, and he probably got it cheap. 100% off grid, with a large shooting range and a flag pole. I won't mention the name or even show the picture I took (no one was there), but once again, how cool is it to be a pilot? Politics aside, I like the way the guy spent (some of) his money, not flash and whiz bang, or to show off his wealth. It's fun snooping on famous people, as long as they are not there (they very rarely are) as i don't want to be a Ahole. Mostly it's just great fun being a pilot

Perfect evening with the doors open on the Cub yesterday. 84 deg and dry.



Some locals bought an Apache to give multi training in.

Some neat places in Southwest Alaska

Nice day for some fish and neat things that really stink.

Ever eaten fresh walrus? Fried it smells just as bad as a rotting carcass on the beach. BTW...not to be a Duck “Yup’ik” meaning...or a Richard Noggin.... make sure you have fish and wildlife document your custodianship of the tusks...just say’n.....if your not packing a Native ID card....get’em documented......this one time back in band camp...this white dude was working for a contractor here in Platinum....He picked up two heads with tusks a Native hunter didn’t want...the Feds show up telling me they’re going after this guy and why. Tried to get them to use this as a teaching opportunity...hell no...these fish and wild life folks were all dressed up like a swat team, a couple of them had masks on to cover their faces...raided his rental here and his home in Kenai at the same time....his poor wife had zero idea why she had guys pointing weapons at her!


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