Itty bitty ti-ti-tires did just fine, resist the 35” “virus”.

Those elk tracks behind your daughter?

Karmutzen wrote:Itty bitty ti-ti-tires did just fine, resist the 35” “virus”.

Those elk tracks behind your daughter?

The little tires did just fine and sometimes I want to cruise fast and cover distance so I'm not real tempted by bush wheels yet.
Lots of elk droppings but no elk tracks since the rain. Lots of bear tracks though.

Great thread! We are pretty lucky to live/fly here.

While you are still on wheels i highly recommend a day on the beach at Vargas if the weather cooperates.

Social distancing in an airplane is awesome.

We've got a couple weeks of good weather coming so I decided to go ahead and mow an airstrip. Turns out I can get in and out of a 500 foot long by 15 foot wide strip. Not a big deal if you over run it a bit on landing but so far I haven't had to. I'm pleased, going to be a fun time.
The 180 put to bed at the farm for the first time

Great photos. Beautiful part of the world you live in.

I wondered how long that would take. Float ramp next?

Fraser Farmer wrote:....The 180 put to bed at the farm for the first time.

I bet that's a great feeling!

175 magnum wrote:I wondered how long that would take. Float ramp next?

I'd like a float ramp but it would have issues if I built one.

hotrod180 wrote:

Fraser Farmer wrote:....The 180 put to bed at the farm for the first time.

I bet that's a great feeling!

You bet it was.

Took the kids up the Stave for a day of hiking and bear hunting. The bears are out, lots of elk too but we didn't get one yet. Good scenery though and lots of sunshine.

After a cold and wet spring locally it's finally hot. Yesterday we beat the heat by flying up to Widgeon Lake locally for a swim and an afternoon on the beach. Great place to go during a long weekend in the Lower Mainland. It was hot and humid and crowded on the valley floor and up here, just a fifteen minute flight away, it was comfortable and secluded and I finally had a day that I wasn't making hay.

That's the dream right there ^^. Nice work.

Zzz wrote:That's the dream right there ^^. Nice work.

It's funny you should say that. This was absolutely, exactly the dream as I was working on getting a pilots license and then float endorsement. From my very first flight I'd thought how neat it would be to escape the summer heat and go up to this lake, and others like it, to swim the kids and have a day away from the farm with my family.
Matt

Fraser Farmer wrote:

Zzz wrote:That's the dream right there ^^. Nice work.

It's funny you should say that. This was absolutely, exactly the dream as I was working on getting a pilots license and then float endorsement. From my very first flight I'd thought how neat it would be to escape the summer heat and go up to this lake, and others like it, to swim the kids and have a day away from the farm with my family.
Matt

As Zzz said. The dream. Nicely done!

Didn’t know Widgeon got warm enough for kids to swim with a smile. Have a video of a couple of helicopter guys swimming to shore in the same spot - they weren’t smiling (blub-blub). Speaking of which, I see 17 campers on that lake got helicoptered out yesterday after their chartered Beaver couldn’t get back in due to weather, and they were “running low on supplies”.

How are those CAP 3000’s working out for you? I loved mine when I had a set on my 185 years ago.

Kurt

Karmutzen wrote:Didn’t know Widgeon got warm enough for kids to swim with a smile. Have a video of a couple of helicopter guys swimming to shore in the same spot - they weren’t smiling (blub-blub). Speaking of which, I see 17 campers on that lake got helicoptered out yesterday after their chartered Beaver couldn’t get back in due to weather, and they were “running low on supplies”.

Widgeon was actually very comfortable for swimming, even out in the deeper water where I went. The kids stayed pretty shallow.
Are you saying they sunk a helicopter in the lake? What happened?
Just saw that bit of news. So glad they got rescued, miracle they survived as long as they did really what with no Starbucks up there, there isn't even a cupcake decorating station. What a desperate situation to be a bit wet and uncomfortable and have your food getting a bit low and only have the options of either using your camping gear to wait or the terrible choice of walking several hours to the Pitt River. I just hope they don't all have PTSD, that's all I can say.

G44 wrote:How are those CAP 3000’s working out for you? I loved mine when I had a set on my 185 years ago.

Kurt

I'm loving the CAPs. Now that I've run heavy a bit the differences are even more pronounced. The CAPs take a little bit longer getting on to the step but are much faster taking off. Since the displacement/plowing stage doesn't eat up much distance I'm taking off considerably shorter. I gained 4 or 5 knots of cruise speed. With the shape of the bottoms they land softer than the EDOs. I'm all around very impressed.
Matt

Last week I went Stones sheep hunting with two friends up North. We had a beautiful flight in, up Indian Arm, Squamish, Whistler, over the hills at Carpenter Lake, and across the plateau to Mackenzie for fuel. From there we went North up Williston Lake to places North. We didn't have a long enough opening with work for the trip really, so no hunting success but we have the area well figured out now and we'll know just what to do next time. We got up into the alpine and saw sheep and goats along with moose and caribou. We were charged to within 10 feet or less by a sow grizzly with 2 cubs but I was able to get a shot off and scare them away. Back at the lake we caught a bunch of fish. We came home by the same route except we went over Garibaldi and down the Upper Pitt River.

Fraser Farmer wrote:Last week I went Stones sheep hunting with two friends up North......

Great pics!
I esp like the "gun barrel" pic of the goat.
Looks like good hunting country.