This is pretty badass...

BC sure is purty

Very Cool. That is in my back yard and that is our backcountry play ground and we fly amounst the peaks all the time. I however have not yet developed the skills to land my 172 on that particular air strip.
KenW

Oh boy, that made me nervous.

paraglide ride off there

175 magnum wrote:Very Cool. That is in my back yard and that is our backcountry play ground and we fly amounst the peaks all the time. I however have not yet developed the skills to land my 172 on that particular air strip.
KenW

Keep practicing, Ken!

If you hike straight ahead and up to the left from that pad you'll come across that "Nazi gold" crashed Mitchell B-25 bomber from 1953. Usually have to wait until most of the snow melts off in September.

Nice little lake, same location as that open-air, helicopter hot-dogging, hockey game from last winter.

Cool video! I like the rotor blade shot at the end, too

How do those yaw strings, work on a helicopter? Is it something to do with rotor wash?

In forward flight most of the rotor wash is behind the helicopter, so they work just like on a glider. Below Effective Translational Lift they're unusable for coordination indications (which for some reason in a helicopter we call coordinated flight, flying "in trim")

The ol 4x4 has pretty good power, especially with only 2 guys on board, but doing recce's that close and slow gave me shivers!