Well, I can't even begin to compete with some of the pics that have been posted here, but here are a few of our trip. Video to come. Due to a bad memory card, we lost a bunch of pics from this trip. I'm pretty bummed about it. It was a great week of flying and it was great to see old friends and meet new ones.

Loaded and on our way!


Our first night's stop due to weather. Seeley Lake, one of the highlights of the trip!


Checking out Seeley Lake. Took the fun bus for a ride down for some cheese cake at Lindey's.


Me and my co-pilot.


Seeley Lake


Shafer, MT


Looking West at Shafer.


The family at Shafer.


Cavanaugh Bay


Huckleberry pancakes for breakfast in Elk River.


Over Moose Creek.


Picnic at Moose Creek with a hike down to the Moose Creek bridge afterwards, then on to Elk City for pie and icecream.


Overhead JC Saturday afternoon.


The Saturday night spread!


A great turn out to the potluck.

Grassstrip, you guys are inspirational! Some people won't even take the whole family to Target because of the logistics involved, you guys make it look easy.

Your itinerary has some great ideas for future trips, I'm taking notes.

Awesome pics. I'd post my pics from the weekend, but they're just of me sitting here at my computer staring at the JC webcam

Vick wrote:Grassstrip, you guys are inspirational! Some people won't even take the whole family to Target because of the logistics involved, you guys make it look easy.

Your itinerary has some great ideas for future trips, I'm taking notes.

Thanks Vick. It was great to meet you. We are definately starting to feel the crunch of having 2 kids now. It took some shuffling from my normal loading to make it work. Next year I'm afraid we'll have to start leaving some "nice-to-have" items home. Eventually we're going to need a bigger plane. It's a lot of work, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Any memories of tiredness or thoughts of "what are we doing" (a rare thought) quickly fade and we remember how much fun it was to be there as a family. In fact, I've been sitting here planning our trip in a few weeks to the San Juan Islands. And we can't wait! The only downside is that we don't get to socialize as much as we would like, but that's just where we are right now in life and that's ok. Time will come for more of that later.

rob,alex ,grassstrippilot and vick...........awesome........good job guys

Grassstrippilot wrote:
Next year I'm afraid we'll have to start leaving some "nice-to-have" items home. Eventually we're going to need a bigger plane.

Just don't leave Curious George home... Oh the humanity!!!

WTF Over....is my bald spot really that big now???



Gotta be the lighting... Time to pick up a can of this stuff I guess...

mountainmatt wrote:

Grassstrippilot wrote:
Next year I'm afraid we'll have to start leaving some "nice-to-have" items home. Eventually we're going to need a bigger plane.

Just don't leave Curious George home... Oh the humanity!!!

They just better keep making new movies/episodes so it will hold his attention. Otherwise we'll never get camp put up or anything else done!

1SeventyZ wrote:WTF Over....is my bald spot really that big now???



Gotta be the lighting... Time to pick up a can of this stuff I guess...

Oops! Guess I had better learn to use a photo editing software and start using it. I'm sure it was the lighting.

Read Malcolm Gladwell's latest book. It talks about the development of GLH and a lot of other interesting things.

HC landing at Smiley Creek 6-23-10 http://www.vimeo.com/13094009

1SeventyZ wrote:WTF Over....is my bald spot really that big now???



Gotta be the lighting... Time to pick up a can of this stuff I guess...

Z man, I think I got you beat.

Time to buy another hat.

I think maybe Z did a transplant to his chin

7853H wrote:I think maybe Z did a transplant to his chin

It's almost harvest time, and I'm going to return it to the top of my head with the help of a little spray adhesive.

Eric, good thing we already have our women!

Don't sweat it guys. My grandpa always said "you can't grow grass on a playground!"

hey Grassstripp...you missed all the excitement at seeley lake last monday night thunder storm with hail ...we watched under the wing of a 310 we were trying to protect with bedding,sleeping bags,etc while the poor old bird got hammered...fortunately no real damage...than discovered the joys of hangering the following night after at bozeman...car windows hailed out...thin

I'll add a few more.

High above JC


Bushhawk in McCall (I want)


A Beaver showed up for a bit on Thur (I also want )


hicountry telling his new friend to be quite


Rowdy bunch in Yellow Pine hanging out with the locals


I'll try to get some raw videos up soon.

Our hero (Cap't Z) landing at JC. http://www.vimeo.com/13111773

hicountry wrote:Our hero (Cap't Z) landing at JC. http://www.vimeo.com/13111773

My heart dropped for a second there

Your not the only one there Pat....I thought for just a second that I might be doing a crankshaft inspection due to a prop strike on that 0-300