Planning on taking the kids out to Copalis tomorrow (9-3-11). Low tide is forecast at about 11 am and the weather should be great. If anyone is looking for somewhere to go tomorrow, conditions don't get any better.

We will be in the white and blue C-170A.

Marshall

Hey Marshall have fun. Looks like our schedules are 2 days off. I have a wedding to go to today! Fun Fun. The wife and I are headed to Pacific City for Sunday night and Monday she and I are headed to Copalis and Lana's for lunch.

So anyone out there if you don't make it today and your in the area Monday the 5th we could do lunch at Lana's if there open? Low tide is 1PM. mobile#
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Cheers...Rob

I might head out to Copalis myself this week during the hot spell. But even when it's 80 in Seattle, I've never been there yet when I didn't need at least a sweatshirt-- it's usually cool & breezy. And often foggy right along the beach, even when every place else is clear. It can be interesting landing through a 10' layer of thin fog.
Pretty good site for checking tides: www.saltwatertides.com
This week's daytime low tides are:
sat-- 1.9' @ 10:41am
sun-- 2.5' @ 11:37am
mon-- 3.1' @ 12:48pm
tues-- 3.1' @ 2:09pm
wed-- 2.9' @ 3:27pm
thur-- 2.3' @ 4:32pm
fri-- 1.8' @ 5:24pm

Hey Marshall,

How was Copalis? I wish I could have joined you, but I'm grinding on the east coast for the next few days. Good to see you on here.

Cory

OregonMaule wrote:Hey Marshall have fun. Looks like our schedules are 2 days off. I have a wedding to go to today! Fun Fun. The wife and I are headed to Pacific City for Sunday night and Monday she and I are headed to Copalis and Lana's for lunch.

So anyone out there if you don't make it today and your in the area Monday the 5th we could do lunch at Lana's if there open? Low tide is 1PM. mobile#
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Cheers...Rob

Well the darn fog moved up the coast.


The view out of our room. Yesterday was perfect. Might get to use my IFR to get out tomorrow.


Actually quite nice, no wind and 65* We had to circle the airport 3 times till we got a hole and made a dive for it. Freaked the wife out.

Head up to Copalis tomorrow if the fog doesn't get there first.
Copalis cam
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Cheers...Rob

Planning a trip to Copalis tomorrow with a couple friends, god willing and the creek, errr fog, don't rise. Shooting for a noon arrival, hoping to cavort on the beach for an hour or two then scoot over to Hoquiam for lunch at Lana's. Rob, maybe we'll see you there.

hotrod150 wrote:Planning a trip to Copalis tomorrow with a couple friends, god willing and the creek, errr fog, don't rise. Shooting for a noon arrival, hoping to cavort on the beach for an hour or two then scoot over to Hoquiam for lunch at Lana's. Rob, maybe we'll see you there.

Looks like the fog made it north. We will seeif it burns off in time for low tide and lunch. Mother natures air conditioning.




Cheers...Rob

My trip to Copalis might be a bust. Looks like my friends are all pukin' out on me-- plus, according to skyvector.com, it was 200 overcast & 4 mile viz at HQM a few minutes ago. Out on the coast, ya just never know-- it might burn off mid-morning or it might be socked in all day. Esp at Copalis- I've seen it clear (or clearish ) everywhere else, even Hoquiam, but with enough fog laying on the beach at Copalis to preclude landing.

Have a look here: http://vimeo.com/28435890 for a video of my trip on 8/20

If you go to S16 be aware that the sand on the "bulb" by the river and by the wind sock is REALLY soft.

The beach erosion this winter and Spring has left a new rock about 12" above the sand and leaves tide puddles really close to the soft sand.

Land long if you can, the beach looks better past the new rock which is about 25-30 yds North of wind sock, assuming there are no beach walkers watching a high horsepower Vegamatic bearing down on them.

TD

Grassstrippilot wrote:Hey Marshall,

How was Copalis? I wish I could have joined you, but I'm grinding on the east coast for the next few days. Good to see you on here.

Cory

Cory,

We had a great time. The weather was perfect, but got a bit breezy in the late afternoon so we flew back to check out the Vintage Aircraft gathering at PAE. The boys had a blast at "Airplane Beach". I'll be right there with ya tomorrow. I'm enjoying a nice 25-hour layover at home and I operate back to BOS tomorrow afternoon.

Here are a few photos from our trip.

Finally got out there today. Typical-- 80's in Seattle, 75-ish at Hoquiam, but chilly breezy & a bit foggy on the beach. Shorts t-shirt & sweatshirt was just right as long as I kept walking. Interestingly the winds aloft were outa the east on the way there but in the pattern & on the beach the wind wwas outa the northwest (just right). The new rock growing just north of the windsock is easy to see & avoid. Unfortunately no other airplanes either already there or tagging along with me.
Extrapolating from the tide tables, it was about a +4.3' tide when I got there -- plenty of room to land & park. In fact, the determining factor wasn't the tide (surf was way out there) but the "tide puddles" that Tom D mentioned.
I saw what appeared to my uneducated eye two different species of pelicans-- some kinda greyish small ones which sorta hung out with the seagulls, and the others which were brownish & quite a bit bigger & kept to themselves.

fly -

I love your paint job on that plane! Just out of curiosity what is your empty weight on it?

hotrod150 wrote:........I saw what appeared to my uneducated eye two different species of pelicans-- some kinda greyish small ones which sorta hung out with the seagulls, and the others which were brownish & quite a bit bigger & kept to themselves.

I just did a bit of online pelican research. It seems that they must have all been "brown pelicans", but they sure looked like two different types of birds. Maybe the segregation was some sort of hierarchy thing between the juveniles & the mature birds?

BTW I saw a handful of guys fishing the Copalis River, apparently for silvers. One guy hooked one whle I was watching, it put on a good show for a couple minutes until it spit out the hook & escaped. Looked like a pretty good fish from what I could see of it. You fishermen might wanna take your gear along if you head out there.

907Pilot wrote:fly -

I love your paint job on that plane! Just out of curiosity what is your empty weight on it?

Thanks 907Pilot,

I think the previous owner made some good decisions regarding the paint. Our 170A is just a VFR airplane and I have made every reasonable attempt to keep it as light as possible. I do have carpet and original seats, but besides that the interior is very simple and light. Empty weight is 1310.