Hah Hah. I'm so dumb. I just looked and the map posted above is the same one I'm talking about. I don't know anything about a Chukar Flat on the John Day, though.

tom

Over-flew the Fish Creek airstrip this morning. Hangar Trash went with me, but I don't know if he took pictures or not. Saw some really pretty water falls just west of the upper end of the lake on the Clackamas.

The Fish Creek Airstrip is way up above the river, on a bench. It is about 2200 feet long. The roads to get to it are twisty dirt/gravel. It is very overgrown with brush and small trees. Looks to me like it would take a lot of work to get it serviceable. Even all cleaned up, I'm not sure how desirable it would be. It would be a hell of a hike to get to the river. Seems like all you could do up there is dry camp and say, "I've been there". It is out of the way enough that I can't imagine too many people coming up there to bug you.

In the next week or two, I hope to check out the airstrip on the John Day, and the one on the Deschutes.

tom

Tom,
When you go over to Chukar Flats and Deschutes, can you shoot some pictures from altitude and/or some video (especially if you land them)?

I hate to always be the guy asking for people to take pics, shoot video, post pireps, etc - but that IS my job as Zane has recently changed my BCP title officially to Airstrip Database Manager!

I will. Got a late start this morning, and by the time I got on location the air was too bumpy to take worth a crap pictures. Next time I'll get going at dawn.
tom

On my way to check out the airstrips on the Deschutes and John Day rivers, I flew over Fish Creek Airstrip and got a picture.
tom

here is a fresh one, guys. how 'bout falconberry on loon creek...
any one done a low pass there lately....? jo