Got out a bit today to check on a few of the local forest service cabins with a friend. Beautiful weather and calm winds
Skilak lake.



Kenai River Valley

Trapper Joes Cabin


Pincher Creek

Enroute to Pincher Creek

You're killing me! Wow, wish I was up there right now, what an interesting winter. Thanks for the pics.

Beautiful!!

Barnstormer wrote:You're killing me! Wow, wish I was up there right now, what an interesting winter. Thanks for the pics.

Soon! I usually fly over and check out your place but I was having to much fun flying the river at 600 feet so I missed it this time.

Looks like an amazing time!
Great photos

After wrecking pretty bad at alyeska I missed out on some really good flying weather at the beginning of the week. Well feeling better I got up today to burn some fuel.
Little break for some target practice

Crossing the forelands headed home.


Some air to air


This was all I had time to edit before heading off to work.. 10 mins later then normal...

Nice! I hope the weather is good when I get off the slope. Last time I was home it wasn't real good the whole time... Enjoy it!

AKGCBC wrote:Nice! I hope the weather is good when I get off the slope. Last time I was home it wasn't real good the whole time... Enjoy it!

Working is so over rated. It's another beautiful day. And I have to work. [emoji19]

Well. Guess I pulled the covers a day to early [emoji19]...

More fun!!!

It is extremely unusual to see Cook Inlet this flat...


Tustumeana lake

Spectacular!

Very nice!

Great pic's!!!!!

Great pics! Very jealous.

Didn't get the chance to fly today, but received an awesome text about an hour and a half before work today. It read, "2 F22 at Kenai, 3:45" so i grabbed my camera and headed over there to get a good spot. They only shot one approach, really wish they did another as i used one of my longer but a kit lens to shoot. Terribly slow focus so i think i missed a few good shots but i did manage to get a few.


It was about the time i heard the shutter click that i realized i had made a horrible decision. As you can tell from the picture they are not very high, and they have had about 1/2-3/4 of a mile to get the turbines spooled up. By the time they crossed the fence, which I was standing right at right off the end of the runway. I can only guess they were well in to the triple digits, My right ear is still not the same. So loud, Between them being so low, My slow focusing lens, the ungodly loud noise, the confused look I must have had on my face would have been priceless.

Away they go.

I think it was in 2014 at the Eugene, OR airport they had three F-16's from Oklahoma show-up for the airports airshow.
When the 16's did their startup before departing where I and everyone else there was standing is maybe 100 yards from the jets. Well I wish I had remembered that I had ear plugs in my camera case.

Been a while but havnt been flying as much as I usually do. So this weekend a coworker and I headed north to doing some scouting for an upcoming caribou hunt. So we departed soldotna direct for talkeetna.

Once across cook I let we headed to the north and up the susitna river not much to see other then lots of tundra. Flew over beluga to give a wig wag to a friend working.


Next stop talkeetna for some fuel and food. Then as were getting ready to depart 3 otters and a 185 pretty cool watching 3 otters in a row depart.

After that it's off to the mountains we go. Pretty cool waterfall pictures do not do it justice but it is huge.

Some once we landed the fog rolled in.


Finally we took a bit of a nap and woke up to a few holes in the fog that gave us the chance to head home.


Once down to the river valley the weather got much better. Only to deteriorate even more so as we got closer to town. But we made it got down called for a briefing for talkeetna back to soldotna and away we went.

Great pictures. I'm sure that waterfall is an impressive sight up close.

I like the bushwheel covers. Any UV is too much at that price.

Zzz wrote:I like the bushwheel covers. Any UV is too much at that price.

my attempt to help stop a bear from they it was a yummy doughnut!!