If you plan for Alvord Dry Lake, you can get food, mogas, beverages at Fields Station, OR.

http://fieldsoregon.com/default.aspx

Some more great pictures: http://idahobushco.com/Destinations.html Then scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Alvord would be awesome.

58Skylane wrote:If you plan for Alvord Dry Lake, you can get food, mogas, beverages at Fields Station, OR.

http://fieldsoregon.com/default.aspx

Some more great pictures: http://idahobushco.com/Destinations.html Then scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Mogas? It is in Oregon so pretty sure the gas has ethynol in it.

Tim

qmdv wrote:

58Skylane wrote:If you plan for Alvord Dry Lake, you can get food, mogas, beverages at Fields Station, OR.

http://fieldsoregon.com/default.aspx

Some more great pictures: http://idahobushco.com/Destinations.html Then scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Mogas? It is in Oregon so pretty sure the gas has ethynol in it.

Tim

Oops , there I go again, running my mouth off without the facts!!! But at one time not too long ago they had mogas. Probably call ahead to see for sure.

Just got back from a road trip to Provo Utah. All the gas in Nevada that I put in the car had ethynol. Now I am not sure of Denio Junction. Utah still has clear gas.

Tim

qmdv wrote:Been thinking about Alvord. The only draw back is that there is a hot spring there. Spent the last 90 minuts trying to get the visual of Bill Reid in the hot spring out of my head.

Tim

Just suffer - I sending you 8 x 10 glossy to hang in the Hobby shop.

Is there Lodging or (Camping available) I have never been there.

Several of us also use Lake El Mirage N.W. of Victorville CA to practice at for those in the So Ca area.

I was thinking about this a couple years ago...wondering why there isn't some sort of annual backcounty fly-in or STOL event in the Alvord. It seems like a great place for such an event (except for proximity to supplies and emergency medical). It could be a pilot's version of burning man....call it flying man. Ha!

There is a little information here:
http://www.shortfield.com/index.php?opt ... D%20DESERT

Should this be moved to a new thread to let the planning begin?

Sounds like fun, I'll try to go too.. And as always, as you all know, the Austin Airport is available for anything anytime, and there is a great dry lake 25 miles west of Austin, that has a hot spring etc. too. Were supposed to get fuel this year, but sounds like late summer or fall. I'm in the process of riggin up a 500 gal. mogas tank now.

The cool thing about landing or takeoff competitions on the dry lake, is you can fairly easily see the tracks to tell who won.

Really just depends on the year if they are dry or not in April-May, there's a big landsailing meet on my dry lake (Smith Creek) on Memorial Day, and it occasionally is too wet. It's covered with snow and ice now, but when it warms up, doesn't take long to dry out.

The Alvord sounds great! I've flown over it but have never landed. A piece of advice: it's so huge you will never find the group, unless the first one there picks out a camp site, then listens for planes and radios his lat/long on some agreed freq. Then, just follow your Loran!

Here's a nice image I found on the internets:

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/14013152.jpg

qmdv wrote:

58Skylane wrote:If you plan for Alvord Dry Lake, you can get food, mogas, beverages at Fields Station, OR.

http://fieldsoregon.com/default.aspx

Some more great pictures: http://idahobushco.com/Destinations.html Then scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Mogas? It is in Oregon so pretty sure the gas has ethynol in it.

Tim

Not only that, you can't pump it yourself in Oregon! Alvord or Utah works for me, I'm right in the middle of both

Why's it got to be one or the other? Lets do both

Not only that, you can't pump it yourself in Oregon! Alvord or Utah works for me, I'm right in the middle of both

Gary

Austin would be perfect!! How about the same weekend as the Fly In? I know Joe already has competitions every year.

There already is a flyin at Austin, isn't this about having another flyin, somewhere else??

Gary

shortfielder wrote:There already is a flyin at Austin, isn't this about having another flyin, somewhere else??

Gary

Oh.......sorry!

Hey Pat
NBD. I was getting a little confused. Happens a lot at m age, you'll see . Personally, I wouldn't want to combine flyins. I think they are like the pretty gals you hang out with, the more the merrier.

You are still in Ca., and gettin a lot of flyin in, that's cool. Did you ever go fly the hills over by Borrego? The 180 you were flyin with used to belong to a friend of mine in Sedona Az.

If you got that much extra time, ya oughta come over this way for a few days.

Have a good evening

Gary

You know me Gary......It's all good!!! I would love to get over your way sometime. But not going to happen this year. After I get the plane back to Idaho (oh, yes.....I'm still in SoCal for a couple more weeks), it will be parked for a little while. For one, my fuel budget is about used up for 2010 already (too many great flying days here in SoCal than I expected), And I'll be busy working till Sept and not sure if I'll have a job come Oct. So I better save for a rainy day! I'm still planning for BCP.org fly in at JC, Austin, NV fly in, and this other fly in we're talking about on this forum (if it close to Boise). And just short local flying to stay currant.

If anything, I'll try to plan a road trip in the rig through Durango when I'm headed for the mid-west from SoCal (or vise versa)!! You have someplace around there I can park the rig?

Hey Pat

Lots of places to park the big rig.

Gary

I've just been told by a fuel supplier in Burns, OR that effective January 1, 2010, 91 octane non-ethanol gas can be sold into portable tanks in Oregon. Apparently Nevada has been able to do that for some time. I just spoke to the folks at the Denio store and they indicated that they have an empty tank that might possibly be available for the 91 oct. non-ethanol mogas. They purchase their fuel from the same supplier that I spoke to in Burns. Since I just wrote the preceding information, I just got off the phone with my friends Sandy and Tom Downs, the owners of the Fields Store. They told me they would investigate the possibility of putting in an additional tank to stock 91 octane non-ethanol gas that might possibly be available on an ongoing basis. Sandy asked me about the benefit of having her stock 100LL but my gut feeling is that, from their perspective, that the non-ethanol 91 oct. would be better. Please weigh in here with some chatter so I can pass your thoughts on this to her when she gets back to me. In my opinion, Fields would be a better alternative than Denio. Phil

drifter wrote:I've just been told by a fuel supplier in Burns, OR that effective January 1, 2010, 91 octane non-ethanol gas can be sold into portable tanks in Oregon. Apparently Nevada has been able to do that for some time. I just spoke to the folks at the Denio store and they indicated that they have an empty tank that might possibly be available for the 91 oct. non-ethanol mogas. They purchase their fuel from the same supplier that I spoke to in Burns. Since I just wrote the preceding information, I just got off the phone with my friends Sandy and Tom Downs, the owners of the Fields Store. They told me they would investigate the possibility of putting in an additional tank to stock 91 octane non-ethanol gas that might possibly be available on an ongoing basis. Sandy asked me about the benefit of having her stock 100LL but my gut feeling is that, from their perspective, that the non-ethanol 91 oct. would be better. Please weigh in here with some chatter so I can pass your thoughts on this to her when she gets back to me. In my opinion, Fields would be a better alternative than Denio. Phil

I'd prefer ethanol free premium mogas and the fields location.
tom