Last Wednesday through Saturday my son and I flew from Longmont to the Chicken Strip. Went via Canon City, Wolf Creek Pass, Durango, Page, and Pahrump. Camped at the Chicken Strip and visited the warm springs the next morning. Day two we toured the area, landing at Darwin, Cinder Cone, Goler Heights, Johannesburg, Ballarat, and finally overnighted at Panamint Springs Resort. Hot day with southerly winds that seemed to be the wrong way for just about every runway. Looked at Minietta Mine strip, but too windy for us.

Day three we headed to Utah and landed at Hidden Splendor, Mexican Mountain, and Mineral Canyon. Had planned to camp at Mineral Canyon, but it was hot and buggy with no good river access, so we continued east and camped at Dolores Point in Colorado. Nice and cool at 7200 msl.

Great trip and finally saw a bunch of places I’d only read about. I learned some things about one-way strips and tailwinds. And I watched my son fly the airplane a lot better than I do. I've got some work to do.

And ya did all that in one of the coolest lookin' airplanes ever built!

C170pete

Great report and photos, David - and more places for my to-go-to list...

Thanks for the post. It brought back fond memories of the desert strips I visited many years ago.

WOW! You managed to hit a lot of our local Mojave strips. Thanks for coming out and enjoying them!

Thanks, guys. I had lots of fun on the Mojave and Utah runways! Sadly, I found my skills somewhat lacking, and a few times I thought, "hm, this is what Contact has been trying to tell us!"