Your girlfriend obviously has a severe case of envy!

Good job with the video, once again, and Powers looks like a great strip, one I might even be able to do someday.

Excellent video Zane!!

I think you have the MauleBros camping philosophy nailed - fly somewhere cool and drink a beer. Just don't get the sequence wrong. After that, you can put some duct tape on your plane and fly home.

Keep the stress low and look for those special perspectives and electric moments that Savannah-T was talking about; the kind you can't describe to friends, so you just say "you had to be there".

I've been exploring the area around the new digs. Sunsets are especially grand:



Hey, good job on the music too. About 4 years ago, I saw Sufjan live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, cool old saloon/bordello that opened in 1907. Your "Dance of the Full Moon" would probably be well accepted there.
YB

Yellowbelly,

That looks like Picacho Peak in between TUC and PHX??

Jim

Wow, Puncher... you got in one! I've been using it as a pylon from KAVQ when the air settles down, around sunset.



YB

Nice job Zane, enjoyed it for sure.

As soon as I get some pics downloaded I'll post a TR on my trip from Seattle to Skagway and back. I know it was in a boat, but still fun none the less.

C ya, Bub

Yellowbelly wrote:Hey, good job on the music too. About 4 years ago, I saw Sufjan live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, cool old saloon/bordello that opened in 1907. Your "Dance of the Full Moon" would probably be well accepted there.

Very jealous! Sufjan has some really good stuff. I've yet to visit the Great American Music Hall, but live shows at most of the venues in SF are memorable

I suspect Royce was doing the pan in the cabin and through the windscreen? It appears that you used 2 cameras? any other equipment?
Nice job!
Thanks

Yellowbelly,

I know that piece of country fairly well, I spend far too much time on I-10.

Jim

Ok, Zane, you got me.

I am a 'lurker', have been for months. I enjoy the forum and it fuels my dreaming. Your video was great - just what I am looking to do.

I am a former Bonanza pilot decided to go 'Sport'. I'm building a Just Aircraft Highlander and am inches from finishing. I am more pilot than builder, and frothing at the mouth to get back to it. Can't wait to sit under the wing, camp out, and pop a bottle of Columbia Crest...

Thanks for posting your video - I'll be out in the hangar building at 0500.

BTW - Prosser, WA fly in this weekend. 25 "right" if you need gravel vs pavement. I'll buy the wine.


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flyin' puncher wrote:Yellowbelly,

I know that piece of country fairly well, I spend far too much time on I-10.

Jim

Hey Jim, been meaning to reply back to you. I'll be through on I-10 first week of Sept. May have time to stop real qiuck. I'll PM you later. Pat.

Hey Zane,

Nice video!

Nice to see Powers getting some attention. It really is a nice strip -- Maybe some day we should have a little Oregon BCP mini fly in there or at McKenzie Bridge or something.

Appreciate the Beta Band tune as well. One of the most fun live shows I've ever seen was the Beta Band a few years back in a small club.

Oregon180 wrote: Oregon BCP mini fly in there or at McKenzie Bridge or something.

That would be fun. I have been wanting to go there.

Rob

Read Zane's report with more than a passing interest. Last September the wifey and I left SLE to do a trip recon on Powers for its camping potential. We no more than landed than the local chief-of police pulled up and proceeded to give me the third degree on the whatfor and why were we there?! He stopped short of asking for ID but was clearly suspicious of us. Seems there had been considerable drug traffic going at the field. Hey, maybe a business opportunity here that will part you from you wings quicker than straightening a bent front fork...... Anyway, there was quite a bit of trash around, all the signs were shot to shit and a general feeling of decrepit going to despair. Kinda wrote it off for camping but Zane cetainley had a more positive assessment!
Getting into Powers is no Idaho but it is in the Coast Range and is fun to fly into. Tom

1SeventyZ wrote:

Hafast wrote:although my eyes are still burning from seeing that shiney white ass.

I had all you guys in mind when I decided to contribute that.

Yeah but you need more than a moon on a video to be a BCAH....

iceman wrote: Yeah but you need more than a moon on a video to be a BCAH....

Good news for many of us, Butch

HangarTrash- that is really kind of scary, but unfortunately I can see that place suffering from what the sheriff said. It's remote and out of view of many people. We were there in the middle of the week, but I wonder if the weekend maybe is a little more active with the undesirables...

Sorry to hear that, hangartrash.

I've been in there a bunch of times, and actually just flew there yesterday (Sunday.) Just a taxi back, take off again visit this time. There were a couple of pickups next to the field, but I didn't see anything untoward.

I've never camped there myself, but usually walk the short walk to the little town for ice cream at the little convenience store, or hang out by the river. It's not Idaho, of course.

I think the more we as pilots use these strips the less likely it is that they'll go away.

WOW! Really cool. I want to do that. Not just Powers. I'm jealous of the video/photo/computer part. Keep it up. Alex.

HangarTrash wrote:Read Zane's report with more than a passing interest. Last September the wifey and I left SLE to do a trip recon on Powers for its camping potential. We no more than landed than the local chief-of police pulled up and proceeded to give me the third degree on the whatfor and why were we there?! He stopped short of asking for ID but was clearly suspicious of us. Seems there had been considerable drug traffic going at the field. Hey, maybe a business opportunity here that will part you from you wings quicker than straightening a bent front fork...... Anyway, there was quite a bit of trash around, all the signs were shot to shit and a general feeling of decrepit going to despair. Kinda wrote it off for camping but Zane cetainley had a more positive assessment!
Getting into Powers is no Idaho but it is in the Coast Range and is fun to fly into. Tom

Yeah,

The bad guys try to ruin it for everyone. In 2003 my son and I landed the Maule at Dinzmore, Calif. , an isolated, hard surface runway in the mountians, with grass a foot tall in the asphalt cracks.

Not a soul in sight; a roaring mountain stream right by the runway. We set up camp and settled in for an evening of solitude....my 12 guage, short barrel, shotgun propped against my chair.

Shortly thereafter we heard the sound of a high powered aircraft engine working it's way up the river and canyon toward the airstrip. What the heck? Obviously no one uses this runway. Two airplanes within a half hour??

Around the corner of the mountain comes a 206, dragging it in....high power settings. Whoa...California Highway Patrol!! She lands and taxis back toward our tent. Quickly the 12 guage goes into hiding.

The CHP aircraft swings around about 50 feet from our tent. Two officers in flack jackets and helmets....semi-automatic shotguns are mounted between their seats.

They sit there for ten minutes, eyeing us carefully. I am sure that they were calling in the registration on our airplane. After a few minutes they taxi back and roar off into the sunset....lovely engine sounds echoing off of the canyon walls.

The next day we flew to Redding, Calif. for maintence and were informed that the CHP watches that airport carefully for drug runners.

Same thing happened to us a few days earlier in Starr County, Texas, which sits right on the Mexican border. Scary airport surrounded by a 12 ft. high chain link fence, loose tin on the hangers flapping in the wind. Abandoned looking place with high winds and sand blowing all over the place. Looked like that airport in the movie "Always" where the ghost tells our aspiring hero to "turn around...go back." My son noted that it looked like the perfect place for an alien abduction! Anyhow we would not have camped there due to "appearances" but it was near sunset when we landed.

About 11:00 p.m. as I was finishing my MonteCristo cigar, under the wing..... my son sound asleep in the tent....up roars the Border Patrol. They are in a huge SUV. Stopping about 80 ft. away, just outside the fence, they turn on all the flashers and spotlights in the world. Sweeping back and forth across our airplane, strobes flashing like something out of "Encounters of the First Kind" I freeze in my chair....barely puffing the cigar.

After about 10 long minutes the SUV backs up....turns off all those nasty flashing lights and cruises away.

Didn't know if they were coming to take me away or protect me. Couldn't wait to get out of there the next morning.

Found out later that Starr County, Texas has the highest crime rate in the state. Only a goofy dad and his son would spend a night camping in that place. Makes for nice memories though.

Bob

z3skybolt wrote:

HangarTrash wrote:Read Zane's report with more than a passing interest. Last September the wifey and I left SLE to do a trip recon on Powers for its camping potential. We no more than landed than the local chief-of police pulled up and proceeded to give me the third degree on the whatfor and why were we there?! He stopped short of asking for ID but was clearly suspicious of us. Seems there had been considerable drug traffic going at the field. Hey, maybe a business opportunity here that will part you from you wings quicker than straightening a bent front fork...... Anyway, there was quite a bit of trash around, all the signs were shot to shit and a general feeling of decrepit going to despair. Kinda wrote it off for camping but Zane cetainley had a more positive assessment!
Getting into Powers is no Idaho but it is in the Coast Range and is fun to fly into. Tom

Yeah,

The bad guys try to ruin it for everyone. In 2003 my son and I landed the Maule at Dinzmore, Calif. , an isolated, hard surface runway in the mountians, with grass a foot tall in the asphalt cracks.

Not a soul in sight; a roaring mountain stream right by the runway. We set up camp and settled in for an evening of solitude....my 12 guage, short barrel, shotgun propped against my chair.

Shortly thereafter we heard the sound of a high powered aircraft engine working it's way up the river and canyon toward the airstrip. What the heck? Obviously no one uses this runway. Two airplanes within a half hour??

Around the corner of the mountain comes a 206, dragging it in....high power settings. Whoa...California Highway Patrol!! She lands and taxis back toward our tent. Quickly the 12 guage goes into hiding.

The CHP aircraft swings around about 50 feet from our tent. Two officers in flack jackets and helmets....semi-automatic shotguns are mounted between their seats.

They sit there for ten minutes, eyeing us carefully. I am sure that they were calling in the registration on our airplane. After a few minutes they taxi back and roar off into the sunset....lovely engine sounds echoing off of the canyon walls.

The next day we flew to Redding, Calif. for maintence and were informed that the CHP watches that airport carefully for drug runners.

Same thing happened to us a few days earlier in Starr County, Texas, which sits right on the Mexican border. Scary airport surrounded by a 12 ft. high chain link fence, loose tin on the hangers flapping in the wind. Abandoned looking place with high winds and sand blowing all over the place. Looked like that airport in the movie "Always" where the ghost tells our aspiring hero to "turn around...go back." Anyhow we would not have camped there due to "appearances" but it was near sunset when we landed.

About 11:00 p.m. as I was finishing my MonteCristo cigar, under the wing..... my son sound asleep in the tent....up roars the Border Patrol. They are in a huge SUV. Stopping about 80 ft. away, just outside the fence, they turn on all the flashers and spotlights in the world. Sweeping back and forth across our airplane, strobes flashing like something out of "Encounters of the First Kind" I freeze in my chair....barely puffing the cigar.

After about 10 long minutes the SUV backs up....turns off all those nasty flashing lights and cruises away.

Didn't know if they were coming to take me away or protect me. Couldn't wait to get out of there the next morning.

Found out later that Starr County, Texas has the highest crime rate in the state. Only a goofy dad and his son would spend a night camping in that place. Makes for nice memories though.

Bob

After reading these stories (which were very interesting by the way), they reminded me of why I moved to Idaho. Just can't wait to get my PPL so I can explore all the great backcountry airstrips in the northwest.............(well, atleast a few).

Now that my vision is back after the searing my eyes got from Yellowbelly's Picacho Peak sunset pic I can say: Zane, thanx for making the travelogue, nice job!