I will be working in Siskiyou County this summer and as RoughAir said:

RoughAir wrote:Sounds like fun. Will Fly for Food. Where abouts are you?

I'll contact you this spring. I will be based in the Mt. Shasta area.

I drove by your place many times headed down to Nordheimer back when I was a river guide. What a great thing it would be to have the ability to fly in and out of there, it's a long long drive from anywhere. Upstream winds were common as the day progressed, it would be nice if you could orient the strip to allow for down river landings, as well as takeoffs. Looks like it is one way now?

We had an R-22 in there on one trip and had great fun flying up and down the river scouting the rapids. Landed it at the pumps at Somes Bar to refuel. Good times!

As cold as it’s been this winter there may be no trees at all soon. The upriver trees are mostly gone as are the ones in the direct flight path heading down river. I’m certainly open to cutting as needed

Yes to wanting lab rats but in reality I’d like to accommodate people to come visit stay and would like to develop both the camping potential and likely build a cabin or more to serve a variety of tastes.

I have a breadth of interests and available as nearby activities range from rafting and kayaking class 2-5, gold mining (digging the old channels but looking for a bigger Trommel), hunting as well as packing horses and mules up into the wilderness for leisure Eco tourism and hunting elk deer and bear. My multiple swimming holes are deep private and approach 70 degrees in August. I have several thousand feet of riverfront and partial on both sides

I’m open to a wide range of possibilities and even partners and welcome all ideas and suggestions or developer types that might want in.

I’ve cleaned the place up a lot and there is significant potential and ample spaces for houses cabins and a couple or few hangars/ apartments.

Its really one of the only flat open spaces around in very remote country. A little like Alaska lite without the cold dark and fewer critters to eat me.

Summers get warm and windy but the the river cools us off each night. Almost always below 70 in the early am even when it gets over 100 during the day. Usually high 50s to low 60s at dawn.

Contact me directly at 530-462-4645 or direct message me if you care to chat and discuss it. I’m quite open to possibilities. Thanks all for the interest and advice. I look forward to chatting with and meeting some of you soon
HB

I'd love to come out and have a look at your spot! We need to grow the backcountry community up in these parts. I'm just over hill frim you on the coast. Lets make it happen!

Looks great, there's a few Zeniths south of you that are watching this. Here's one of us at a nearby private strip in the Sierras, 4,500 elevation. It's about 1,400 ft long, good for about four touch and goes for our 750's. You have a good plane for your strip

After a few discussions with the owner of Missouri Bar, taking measurements of the surrounding land, and analyzing the approach and go around scenarios, I had the honor of making the first landings and takeoffs at the Missouri bar airstrip on Friday morning.

This is a beautiful, well designed and prepared strip at an incredible location.



While there, I made several approaches, low passes in both directions, landings, takeoffs and departures.

We discussed ideas about how to improve the runway.

For now it is a short one way strip with marginal go around options that should only be considered for use by pilots with sharp and developed backcountry flying skills.

It was the best day of flying that I have had in quite a while.

Cool video that really brings that strip to life after reading about it here. [emoji1360]

Nicely done! And nice job preparing the strip, that took some work!

Nice work, Jake!

Excellent.

The strip looked nice and smooth.

Looks awesome

CFOT wrote:
We had an R-22 in there on one trip and had great fun flying up and down the river scouting the rapids. Landed it at the pumps at Somes Bar to refuel. Good times!

An old photo of this just popped up.

Landing the Robinson at Somes Bar to refuel ...25 years ago +/-

Any updates on this strip? I'm based at Mt. Shasta and would be interested in checking it out.