Cascade Locks. Left Troutdale at 7:45 AM. 21 miles up the Columbia River from Troutdale, Oregon. 30x1875 paved or 50x1875 grass. I like the grass. Did 6 stop and goes and went into town for coffee. I love flying in the morning. So smooth and the temp is just right.

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Cheers...Rob

Over the weekend went for a nice flight up the Columbia Gorge to Hood River for some milkshakes, then on the way back to Scappoose went for a tour of the Clark County grass airstrips. The water was nice at Daybreak..... Not exactly backcounty (especially Fly-for-Fun), but at least got the wheels off the pavement.

Scappoose SPB - Hood River 4S2 - Fly for Fun W56 - Brush Praire Aerodrome 5WA9 - Goheen W52 - Daybreak WA46 - Scappoose.

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The mountain was out:


Multnomah Falls:


On final at Daybreak:


Pacer at Daybreak:


Fly for Fun:


Short Final back at Scappoose:

skymaule wrote:to the ranch. No place like ND in the summer!

Oh give me a home, where the Black Angus roam, and the deer and the tailgraggers play.
Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

Zane and I did a little early morning training. From Troutdale to Sandy River (grass), Eagle Nest Ranch (grass), Shot 2 approaches to Aurora the RNAV GPS 17 and RNAV GPS 35. Then down to Lenhardts (grass), Mulino for breakfast at the Airport Cafe. Then back to Troutdale.

Cheers...Rob

Rob and I have a good thing going on. He needs a safety pilot to maintain his instrument currency and I want practice flying from the right seat. He's a good pilot and fun to fly around with. It was a great way to start the work day...by not working:

Sandy River airport


Poor man's view-limiting device


Although I'm confused about why he needs it...

Note: This is not actual IMC, it is an overexposure of the photo.

Aiming for the grass runway at Lenhardt


Really going for "poignant" here, the reflective man reflects.


We're so deep into the backcountry that my iPhone only gets 3 bars worth of signal:


There's a town right behind me, isn't there? Oh well. Decent breakfast, big coffee cups.


Home to KTTD


Looking up the Gorge

Jimmy Buffet would be proud of that shirt
Sucks to live in Oregon at this time of year,I figure.

Met up with highroad and his dad. We flew down to Albany to get highroads Pacer, nice plane. Then up to M5guys grass strip. Then over to Sandy River grass strip. Got an impromptu air show by the local guy. The owner Jack has turn this place into a real gem. Jack was stuck in Albany by the same weather that trapped highroad.

We saw and talked on the radio to I think it was fern hopper. Green and white Pacer. Workn the xwind. Tricky it was.

Got a good 330' landing back at Troutdale.



The delight of red and white flight.

Flew SPB - Albany - MMV - SPB. Saw a pretty cool amphib doing touch and gos at MMV.

Rob - thats a sharp looking airplane with those new tires!

Stuck the landing the second time around. A little rusty on the Xwinds, I need to fly a little more on those days the it isn't clear and sunny with no wind.................

Flew to Skagway to drop off my son and then went on down to Juneau, severe clear all the way. light winds. Lot's of sea lion on the rocks and several whales cruising around.
On the way back found a pod of Orca and several more humpies. Landed in the gravel on the approach to home and forgot about that damn sinker right at the cut bank, it dropped us a little shorter than I wanted but we were so slow there were only a few bounces
Oh well everytime I think I can fly I go out and demonstrate the opposite.

Hello all,
We attended WW2 weekend at which time I took some photos of the event. If this group is interested I posted some photos in my gallery. (Enjoy)

Well its not a backcountry flight but a flight none-the-less. We left out of Anchorage (tech stop) at 3am yesterday for Beijing. I had not witnessed the "light all night" until now. Upon leaving, I got a shot of the moon next to the 550's winglet. It was a beautiful sight and the picture cannot do it justice but here it is..

Just a quick joyride around the area. I've never seen it this green... usually it's just brown and dirt.



After 4 years the runway is starting to fill in. I may need to actually mow it this year.

Mowing your own runway.. Now that's a chore I'd like to have.
Step 1: Have a runway..

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I had 3 hours that I needed for my commercial time and I didn't want to make it boring. I like flying at night it's calm and no one is around and the people that are just seem to be a little bit nicer. I decided to do fly around a few airports instead of a straight XC to one. It was really fun and got some good night time, and black hole effect training in. no realy pictures this is one from from before I took off all I had was my phone plus it was.... well... night.

Yesterday, I flew from Merrill Field in Anchorage to the Halibut capitol of the world....Homer, Alaska just to have a bacon cheeseburger and to......well, cuz it was there.....cross winds started blowing about 30 miles S. of Anchorage and it proceeded to just knock me around all the way to Homer. That bacon cheeseburger at CeCe's was just as good as I remembered from the last time 2 years ago, especially with her homemade coleslaw........great way to spend part of a day. Unfortunately, the weather prevented me from being able to see the recent active volcano...Mt. Redoubt. But Mt. Augustine was out in her full glory....some of the locals said they saw some smoke from it on Thursday, but there was none yesterday.

Lake Maumelle, AR.

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I forgot to turn it back on from Haines to Gustavus, but I got most of it.

Don't know how to post or save it, but this is what I've been doing the last week. Cool trip with my Dad and 14 y/o son.

I don't mind saying that I am one lucky sumbitch to live here and go where I've been this year!

gb

I wanted to pay it forward, so I offered a free plane ride on a local website (I'm very blessed to have this bird!). On Wed afternoon we took off and had a wonderful time. Nice weather too, finally.

Pikes Peak/Air Force Academy.



Approach into Meadow Lake



Deb's first flight EVER in a plane



From there it was north to Centennial to pick up another crew.

All loaded up



Goodtimes







Short final on 35L



Making the most of the daylight



Back home



Oh the joys of a smile!!!

Nice work MountainMatt!! Where were you when I was a little kid. Nice Photies too. Was that the Stinson that just sold on Barstormers?? Looks like it was a great day.

SixTwoLeemer wrote: Was that the Stinson that just sold on Barstormers??

I think so, but I bought it from a guy who bought it from a guy.