Great looking Scout! Thanks for sharing your mods and adventures.

Keep the adventure and airplane maintenance/mod’s pictures coming. Only suggestion I can make is FLY THE HECK OUT OF IT! Have fun, stay safe, use yer knoggin. Oh, and don't treat it or fly it like a dirt bike, its already been over on its back once already.
Kurt

Motosix, this is my first time up there so I'm not sure what normal water level is. There is lots of sand showing around the lake though. The campground I assume you're referring to (and every other one around) had quite a few people and RV's. You might not could land close to them, but plenty of opportunities elsewhere around the lake/river if you were so inclined.

Thanks everyone

Speaking of Wyoming, I was east of Cokeville yesterday, and after a great exploratory flight up a narrow winding canyon (real green, no houses, just some cows) that curved and twisted just enough to make the view up it constantly changing, I eventually came out of it a bit above 8K, and found Smoot was off my left wing. So, so close to Afton, I decided to cruise by and eyeball the parking lot of my favorite cafe, right across from the airport. After seeing they were open, ( and had been for a week, after a long closure) I landed and walked into a restaurant for the first time in 6 weeks, it was oddly moving.....

Put together a simple video. GoPro stopped responding to my phone control somewhere on the way to miracle mile so I didn’t get that footage.

Water level looks to be about the same from the fall, but you found some good stuff to play on out there. Great video. Maybe we can get some of the BDU/LMO/18V guys up there sometime soon.

Another great weekend in the Scout, this time across the rocks to Utah. Jack (flyingjack on BCP) invited me to come over and fly with him and a group of huskies from CO and UT. That was a Friday-Monday ordeal and I didn't want to take up that many days so I decided I'd fly over Saturday morning and back Sunday if weather worked out. Luckily it did.

Left Boulder around 8am with the divide looking socked in pretty good. Decided to try the south route rather than direct over Corona Pass, and if it didn't happen, I was mentally content on playing locally all weekend. Corona Pass is in there somewhere:




Dodged around cloud buildups heading southwest and once across the divide at Marshall Pass, it was blue skies as far as I could see.




First stop was Delores Point, a great location for an airstrip perched up high. Don't hear much about this one since it's in Colorado, but was in good shape. Relatively smooth with ruts in a couple places and some whoopdies.



Next up was Mineral Canyon for lunch, a classic. Also in great shape.



Stopped at Horseshoe Canyon quickly. It's pretty simple so not many people talk about it but it's up above Mineral with good views and great hiking probably.


While up at horseshoe I got a text from Jack saying they were making their way from Hite back up to Mineral. Since I thought this might be the only times our paths crossed, I ducked back down to Mineral and waited for them. Soon a pack of 5 Huskies and a cub came in.



After chatting with them about Huskies, Scouts, etc, etc I left and made my way North. I had planned to camp last night but hadn't really decided where. I thought Mexican Mountain might already have people so I planned to stop at Cedar Mountain too. Didn't really matter, I was flexibe.

Flying up the Green River:


Mexican Mountain, which indeed did have a couple parties camping:


My first time to Cedar Mountain. A cool place for sure.




I decided Cedar would be the spot to camp since no one was around. I however realized I forgot the packet of ramen that was planned to be dinner, so I was out of food except my emergency stores and oatmeal for the following breakfast. It was only 4pm by this time anyway, so I decided to fly don to Huntington (69V) and use a courtesy car to go get dinner. Originally I had planned to stop at 69V for fuel the following morning before heading home. I'm glad I decided to go get dinner, because 69V was a great place to camp. Two dirt runways, outdoor picnic shelter, nice grass (yes, grass.. in Utah) to set up a tent, bathrooms, showers, running water and electricity at the camping area, courtesy car, gpropane grill, fire pit, pilot lounge, etc, etc. It was what I would design if I was tasked with designing an airport for big-tire transients to spend the night. No interactions with FBO's, just giving me all the resources I need to have a nice night. I left a donation because I hope it stays available for other pilots.


Left 69V this morning to head back over the rocks home. I had a good reminder of why we preflight. Found this lock nut on my tailwheel spring about half off. Would not have been fun for it to come off. I carry tools so not an issue to tighten, but I will replace the nut with a fresh one.


Flight home was pretty uneventful with a nice tailwind. Noticed this for the first time. What looks like a strip West of the Eagle airport. Must be at 9000'+ elevation and has a decent slope to it but looks cool. Have never heard anything about it. For reference, I was at 11,500', a few miles North of a straight line between GWS and EGE.


I got some video so if I find time to edit, I'll put that together. All in all a great weekend. Love the 31's.

Wow, what a cool weekend, bet you are glad you had a lot of gas! Great pictures and trip report, fun to follow along.

Kurt

Myself and another wagon were the ones camping at Mexican mountain. Beautiful weather.
Was down at the creek this morning washing my hands when I heard a buzzing behind me, and some rustling in the leaves. I had never heard a rattle snake in real life, scared the crap out of me, it was only a couple of feet from me. I must have stepped right next to it on the way to the creek. Fortunately the rustling was it crawling away from me.

StillLearning wrote:Myself and another wagon were the ones camping at Mexican mountain. Beautiful weather.
Was down at the creek this morning washing my hands when I heard a buzzing behind me, and some rustling in the leaves. I had never heard a rattle snake in real life, scared the crap out of me, it was only a couple of feet from me. I must have stepped right next to it on the way to the creek. Fortunately the rustling was it crawling away from me.

I should've walked down and said hi, but I was telling myself I had to figure out where I was going to camp and what I was going to eat. Although I didn't deal with any rattlensakes so maybe I made the right choice haha. Was yours the stripped 180 or the red/black/white? The red/black/white looked familiar for some reason.



Put together a short video. Left out all my bad landings and most of my shitty decisions. If you watch to the end, you can get a glimpse of my disgusting quarantine mustache.

Asa, Great video, glad we were able to meet up and visit. The UT boys were great and the flying was fantastic. I'm not a camera guy but I think Alex will probably have a collection. Pretty good tailwind coming home Sunday PM.
Jack

Found this lock nut on my tailwheel spring about half off.

Yeah, keep an eye on that tailwheel spring nut/bolt. Most of us carry a spare for that and also the one for at the other end of the spring, and the tools.
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Karmutzen wrote:

Found this lock nut on my tailwheel spring about half off.

Yeah, keep an eye on that tailwheel spring nut/bolt. Most of us carry a spare for that and also the one for at the other end of the spring, and the tools.
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The bolt will bend and possibly shear with rough use. Inspect @ 100 Hour for bends and damage. Or after a hard impact etc.

Great video and trip report!

Jack, thanks again for the invite!

Karmutzen, that looks exactly like mine did haha.

And yes I carry appropriate spare parts and tools. Was a non issue but glad I found it. Airplanes are actually so simple compared to cars, really easy to have correct tools/spares when you’ve tinkered with them a bit. This was on the ramp at 69V when I found it. If you look closely you can see the bottom of a McDonald’s cup in the tool bag. I cut off the bottom 2” and it’s become one of the most used items.. great for holding belly panel screws, etc when working. And it’s ultralight.


Also took along a friends CO detector out of curiosity after 8GCBC’s comment a week or so ago. 0ppm except 2 full power slow climb outs where it reached 2-3ppm.



Thanks everyone!

I’m in the stripped 180, a friend from kgws in the red and black.
You should have stopped by, we had tons of extra food, and some beers too.

That photo of the strip north of eagle, my personal strip Looks to be about 6 or 7 miles due south. I’ve got 1700’ at 8100.
I’ll go look and see if I can find it.

StillLearning wrote:I’m in the stripped 180, a friend from kgws in the red and black.
You should have stopped by, we had tons of extra food, and some beers too.

That photo of the strip north of eagle, my personal strip Looks to be about 6 or 7 miles due south. I’ve got 1700’ at 8100.
I’ll go look and see if I can find it.

Here's a google maps link...
https://goo.gl/maps/QeKjuTcZJ8DrnnJU7

Coming back from Utah, I had felt a tiny amount of roughness, the kind you aren't sure if you're just imagining because you're over the mountains. I did an in-flight mag check and when I turned off the right mag, it got pretty rough. Adjusting mixture didn't help. When I got on the ground, I did a runup and all was well. Went flying again, ground runup to 2500rpm looked good when I tried the mags, but in-flight mag check showed roughness.

It was a fouled plug but only showed up during high manifold pressures (over 22"). I went through logbooks and the magnetos had never been pulled for inspection since new (800 hours, 15 years). My mechanic and I decided to IRAN them on the bench. The left mag (one that was rough) had wobbly gears and the points weren't great. After rebuilding both and cleaning/gapping plugs, everything is running great. Makes me feel better to have a fresh ignition system before I head North.

This was also my first pavement landing since getting the bushwheels. I apologized to them afterward.

asa wrote:
This was also my first pavement landing since getting the bushwheels. I apologized to them afterward.

Hahaha!

Glad you got it running great!