Great pics, Mike!

Thanks all, nice to meet everyone had a great time. Thanks Gary, Rod, Paula & Hunter for putting up with the fetching dog. See you next time.
Russ

Here are some of the photos I took. Overall a great trip and the weather was as good as one could ask for. For Katie’s first fly-in trip, I think she had a pretty good time. She was really nervous the whole time, but once we arrived home safely, she starting chatting like a morning finch about this and that. With any luck, she may want to do this again (JC perhaps).

Nate and Meghan were great company and hopefully they can come to Johnson Creek too!

Over Leadville, CO. Mount Elbert (14,440ft)


Capitol Peak in the clouds


Getting Fuel at Mack Mesa



Heading into Mexican Mountain



At Mexican Mountain we just enjoyed the peace and quite. After setting up camp we went on a little hike and shortly thereafter a couple from WY flew in with a SuperCub. Even some nice cowboys stopped by to say hi after riding the canyons.







Katie and I went on a short afternoon flight around the area.



Dinner and story time


Random night shots





The next morning crossing the Swell


Arrivals at Caveman







Mineral Canyon



Angel Point



Dirty Devil



Happy Canyon




Needles District


Overflying Caveman


West of Moab


Experimental SC at Mack Mesa



Adam and Sprocket


Dolores Point


Caveman night shots



Heading home, over the Great Sand Dunes


Mount Blanca from afar


Cruising VFR on top


Katie is done


Home at last


Mush and his beautiful new (to him) SuperCub


Thanks again everyone for a wonderful time, it was great seeing everyone. Even though the Stinson gulped down a ton of oil it performed great.

Now, time to put together some video.

Damn nice pics. I'm gonna miss all you guys over there this summer! I need to go fly out and camp somewhere and quick!

MountainMatt : Couple of tips that may help you ! Franklins like to spit out oil. It is their nature ! I very seldom keep the oil level at 8 or 9 quarts unless I am on a long haul or the outside temps are real hot and I'm pushing it hard ! I run my 165 most of the time at 6 to 6.5 quarts and find the oil consumption is much better. A oil/air separator will also help ! Also, don't use multi- grade oil in warm weather - you'll find oil leaks you didn't know you had --that won't appear if you use straight weight - grade 100 . Performance, both take off and cruise will be much better if you re-pitch the prop to 7652 and run the rpms up to 2600 to 2700 and lean her out. This is not speculation, we have done this on about ten Stinsons in the area and all have seen better performance !
John

What a great time...again!
Thanks to all that made it possible.
Nice!

Awesome pics guys, I wish I could have made it down there. I wish I had that weather for my flight to CA too!

I first want to thank Gary for putting on the fly in this year he did a great job with it and the poker run!!!!

A special thanks to Tom for helping out with the dinner when the socail butter fly was busy keeping are guest entertained, and the honey that you brought is amazing yum yum yum!!!!!

A special thanks to Rob for making it out agian and glad you liked the shirt!!!!

Congradulations to Corey on winning the poker run, We will be in contact soon!!!!

Congradulations to Paul for winning how many planes would be there!!!!

I want thank everyone that made it to the fly in this year we had lots of fun with it at are little slice of heaven but it wouldnt be anything with out all of you guys there!!!! you guys are the ones that make it soo special!!!!

Hope to see everyone on the next Fly in or sooner!!!!!

Thanks agian Rod, Paula, and Hunter

p.s. great pics there guys send more and videos!!!!!!

Rod and Paula have shirts left for anyone that didn't get one at the fly-in or for those that just want to pick one up. The cost is $25 each plus $5 in shipping. These shirt look great and are high quality (I own a few )

Here is the Caveman Fly-in 2011 shirt.


PM Caveman for size and ordering details. Get them while they last, this is a HOT item.

OregonMaule wrote:See the skid marks headed towards my plane. Adam is analyzing the landing. I think he told dad to get bigger tires.

Mrs grasstripilot. I think she was going to take the baby walk back. Not really, she is one cool mom.


Corey, Dee, Adam, Sadie. The grass strip family. They get my vote for the BCP first family. Corey always comes with the whole family. Dude how you do that is beyond me!

Hey Rob,

Bigger tires are definitely on the list for when I upgrade our family plane. It didn't help that this was where we lost the right brake! I guess the video of you and Blu bolting was worth it though. I told Dee about you asking "How we do it?" She says she wonders too. I know how I do it...a wonderful wife that enjoys it enough to want to make it a family affair. It's a lot of work, but so worth it! I am very fortunate. Thanks again for all the help. It was great seeing you again and we look forward to seeing you, and everyone else, up at JC next month.

Cory

caveman wrote:I first want to thank Gary for putting on the fly in this year he did a great job with it and the poker run!!!!

A special thanks to Tom for helping out with the dinner when the socail butter fly was busy keeping are guest entertained, and the honey that you brought is amazing yum yum yum!!!!!

A special thanks to Rob for making it out agian and glad you liked the shirt!!!!

Congradulations to Corey on winning the poker run, We will be in contact soon!!!!

Congradulations to Paul for winning how many planes would be there!!!!

I want thank everyone that made it to the fly in this year we had lots of fun with it at are little slice of heaven but it wouldnt be anything with out all of you guys there!!!! you guys are the ones that make it soo special!!!!

Hope to see everyone on the next Fly in or sooner!!!!!

Thanks agian Rod, Paula, and Hunter

p.s. great pics there guys send more and videos!!!!!!

Hey Rodney,

I'm going to try to get some pics and the information you guys requested dropped in the mail layer this week. Look forward to hearing from you.

Cory

Sounds great Corey