Troutdale to Madras. Mowed the lawn. There is a fire TFR not far from Madras. I stayed well clear. Then Madras to Sunriver. We will be here till Monday. wx is perfect.

Cheers

Dammit I hate when i do that I wrote a whole post and bumped the wrong button and it all went away somewhere.

Take Two.

We had family visiting and I took them all to Juneau to catch the jet, It took two trips to get us all down there, whales were bubble feeding near Juneau. We had meant to stay down and catch a movie then spend the night and come home the next morning but SouthEast weather didn't get the message. The clouds and fog and rain rolled in and we got to stay another day and spend a few hundred more buckeroos to spend another night and day there. We finally got home this AM by flying around and through several small rain squalls but at least now my plane is clean

robw56 wrote:I had some AF related training today at the Nut Tree Airport. It was a good excuse to fly to work!


I saw this familiar looking plane while I was there too

Good to know there is another e-5 with a plane! haha! If I get the orders I want we'll have to do some fly out's!

I'm guessing you want C-17s at Travis?

High Country- Can you land on the plateau in the middle of the photo? Would make for a very cool spot!



No NW trip for me...Wife was not haven it...

Went and played on a few mtn tops in Nevada instead for an hour or so...



AKT

aktahoe1 wrote:High Country- Can you land on the plateau in the middle of the photo? Would make for a very cool spot!



No NW trip for me...Wife was not haven it...

Went and played on a few mtn tops in Nevada instead for an hour or so...



AKT

Don't know..have never flown up the valley, just accross the northern end.

Flew to MtnMatt's strip today, met Matt, Flynakd, and Bush..did a little hangar flying and departed before it got STINKING hot!

Great video HC, thanks for coming down from NE to say hi.

We had a gathering at our strip last night. A few more were hoping show, but a late day storm came through and about blew the needles off the cacti. (Had to be gusts close to 50mph.)

Nate, Mush and I made it in and out of this little spot before the gust front hit. I had to do some creative thinking (and flying) to get down.





After we were safely on the ground, we tucked all three planes in the hangar in case of hail.



Extremely impressive sunset!







After the storm passed we cheered to a day well lived and consumed a few low budget brews. We hit the sleeping bags pretty hard that night and HC gifted us with a stealth approach in the morning. None of us were to quick to get up.



After a few hours of BSing and waiting to see if anyone else would show, we darted off in our different directions.

Fun stuff, thanks guys for coming out.

aktahoe1 wrote:High Country- Can you land on the plateau in the middle of the photo? Would make for a very cool spot!



AKT

It's called Adobe Mesa. Pretty much covered with scrub brush and rocks. A couple of jeep roads but they are fairly rough.
I will try to get some video of it tomorow and post it.

robw56 wrote:I'm guessing you want C-17s at Travis?

No I want to some predictablilty to my life and...I want to be done with c-17 flying for a while.... CRW all the way!

got back yesterday at 3 from a week at JC.. had some rain a couple of nights but all in all a great week there.. was gonna come home today but too many airplanes there for the 180 185 fly in and harmonica fest... been to both before so I figured I'd leave Sat.... first time I ever flew south through the desert without a bump or any turb...satisfied my fly fishing itch with numerous 18-20 inch cuts at Sulphur creek ... amazing to see 4 foot salmon in a small creek like that every year...thanks to Mark and Kitty,(Skymaule) Don and Fran, who also showed up and made it a great week with old friends...and good to see Curtis at Elk City for a day...

Sunriver to Cresent Lake with my wife, brother and sister in laws. Had a good breakfast 5 minute walk from the airport. When we got ready to leave it was getting warm and the wind was wrong for the down hill and lower terrain. After some deliberate calculations I knew the mighty Maule could do it. I certainly wouldn't want any more heat, weight, or wind.

Got back to Sunriver and finally got to meet Mauleguy in person. Nice to meet you Lisa, sorry to cut your head off in the picture Greg.



Cheers...Rob

Hi Rob, did you make it to Alaska for your hunting trip? Let me know so we can get together.
Ken in Alaska

akflyer2001 wrote:Hi Rob, did you make it to Alaska for your hunting trip? Let me know so we can get together.
Ken in Alaska

Hey Ken. Not this year for me. James is on his way. Maybe next year for me.

Cheers...Rob

Sunriver to Bend Oregon for breakfast at Cafe3456.

321TL next to Bushwhacker at Sunriver.

Somewhere on the San Carlos Apache res.
A good day, saw mule deer, whitetail, javelina, antelope and a nice sized black bear.
Dale

Thanks Rob for getting back to me. James is on his way then. I have not herd or see any thing on here in regards to his trip. Hope he brings his computer so I can catch up with him this week.
Hope to see you next year Rob. Safe flying...

Ken

Russ (GliderGeek), his wife and two dogs came up to Idaho for the weekend. They flew up to JC on Saturday for the Harmonica Festival and then on Sunday I went with them in their C180 to Sulphur Creek, Bruce Meadows and Garden Valley. Had a blast and a great motivator to get working on my plane!! (oh wait, I still don't have any money , oh well ). Anyway, here's some pictures to share.............

Old warbird and Russ's 180 at Sulphur Creek


Me and the cowgirls at Sulphur Creek


Parked at Bruce Meadows


And a link to the rest of the pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2307778656968.138932.1324371585&l=c65544561d&type=1

[quote="hicountry"]Flew to MtnMatt's strip today, met Matt, Flynakd, and Bush..did a little hangar flying and departed before it got STINKING hot!

Good seeing you HI-C and nice vid! next time wait until I come out of the oval office to buzz the hangar-although you did help with my morning paperwork-HA! was a fun time with Bush, & mtnmatt too.

FLYNAKD wrote:

hicountry wrote:Flew to MtnMatt's strip today, met Matt, Flynakd, and Bush..did a little hangar flying and departed before it got STINKING hot!

Good seeing you HI-C and nice vid! next time wait until I come out of the oval office to buzz the hangar-although you did help with my morning paperwork-HA! was a fun time with Bush, & mtnmatt too.

Anytime..always want to help out with the paperwork.