Today was just a perfect flying day around here in Southern Oregon. I decided to play hooky for a few hours this morning and headed out for a little local flying.

Our area's topography is pretty spectacular in any direction. We have several mountain ranges, rivers, volcanos - you name it. It's pretty hard to get lost, since the ocean is not far to our West, and a line of famous and distinctive snowcapped volcanos -- the Cascades -- form a line North to South.

Several beautiful rivers flow from the Cascades to the Pacific ocean: the Klamath, the Illinois and the Rogue being chief among them.

Today, I followed the Illinois river as it winds through the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, eventually joining forces with the Rogue River.





Near where the Illinois and Rogue meet (Agness) I hooked up with another river: the Coquille. Following this river North took me to Powers, Oregon and its nice grass strip.



The grass on the strip gets pretty tall this time of year, but it wasn't too bad. I talked to Richard, a fellow who was out flying his model airplanes, took a nice walk down to the Coquille, and just enjoyed the beautiful day.

The camping area is mowed and looks better than ever. Time to head back home!

Looking good at Powers! Weather good to Go!

Just 30 minutes North of Powers Airfield I have pioneered some great float flying in the Umpqua River Estuaries. Great for Salmon fishing.

When is the 1st Powers flyin?


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We're overdue for a campout somewhere, that's for sure!

Short hop this morning to "circulate the oil."

Lots of low clouds so I decided to play around with the black and white film emulation on the Fuji and see if I could get something dramatic.

I wasn't very successful, but here's a photo of local landmark Pilot Rock, surrounded by cloud.

Beautiful.

Oregon180 wrote:Short hop this morning to "circulate the oil."

Lots of low clouds so I decided to play around with the black and white film emulation on the Fuji and see if I could get something dramatic.

I wasn't very successful

I beg to differ. Nice one!

Great pics, sure is some amazing country up there! I like that shiny Sportsman leading edge too, beautiful ship

We had originally planned to fly to Idaho for a long weekend of camping, but with school ending next week, my son's Little League season closing ceremony this Saturday, and unseasonably hot temps, we decided to stay home. I still managed to sneak out this morning and fly to the John Day river. Originally planning to land at Chukar Flats, I got too late of a start and ended up just checking it out from the air. If I'd left an hour or two earlier it would have been fine, but by the time I got there it was already pretty hot and the air in the canyon was too swirly for my taste. Still got a close look at the strip and a nice scenic flight.

Oregon never ceases to amaze me with it's varied beauty.

Mount Thielsen: "The Lightning Rod of the Cascades"


The John Day River, near Chukar Flats



The Sisters with puffy clouds and shiny wing

It's been a while since I posted on here, but so far the 2018 flying season is off to a great start!

Great to hear from you again, looks like you're having fun!

Looks like a nice trip

Looks like a great time Kristian!

It's been a while since I posted here!

My wife and I spent last weekend camping at Red's horse ranch along the Minam River in the Wallowas in Northeastern Oregon.

This time we splurged on Dinner and Breakfast at Minam River Lodge, which is a nice 1/2 mile walk from Red's. Delicious food and a really beautiful place to hang out.

Aside from some bow hunters who had a camp set up, we had the whole place to ourselves.

So nice to see you posting again… like we’re getting the band back together! LOL

Nice pics

I second Bigrenna!!!

I just think it's awesome you're using the photo caption BBcode! Takes a developer I guess

Kristian, thank you for sharing your trip. Camping at Reds with some food at Minam is one of our favorite things to do!

Brent

Well Fiddlesticks! We missed you by a week Oregon180.

Just a perfect place to get away for the weekend though.