Your photos are fantastic TomD. Great job.

Hey Tom the viability was incredible wasn't it.

Cheers

Nice photo of Mt St Helens! We flew over it back in "07 on a similar clear day.....the place just facinates me!!

As promised.

I hate when I hit the wrong button and lose what I typed, haha.

I took a Carbon Cub out today for some flying. I went over to Tieton State, but didn't land. There were quite a few animals on the runway and I didn't feel like messing with it. So I just toured the area. It's beautiful over there for sure! Then I headed to Buena, a private grass strip we use quite often. I did a few landings and got out and visited with a local there and checked out some planes. Then back to Yakima. Great day for flying!





Then the mugshot with mah new BCP hat!

Cool Jason!!

I got to fly to Warren Id. Saturday, again, delivering two more solar panels to the same old boy as last time. He is one of only 9 or so who winters over there This time I played a bit on the way:somewhere west of Chilly. The bar/cafe was open this time, and it has great "ambience" and the biggest damn homemade wood stove I've ever seen, about 4' in diameter, I bet that takes the chill off pretty quick. Wish I had a picture of it. I landed at Chamberlain for the day, mostly because it had water nearby and I had never been in there. At 4100' it was pretty tight but I pulled it off. I didn't see another soul the rest of day, which is the way I like it when going to the Frank, not counting the JC gathering of course! Got smoky this AM, heading towards Mile Hi And now, here it got interesting: flying the Middle Fork to the Main, and then hanging a right I made it the old strip that a buddy of mine used to own, and fly a Helio Courier out of. The last time I landed there was the late 80's in a Kitfox. Stan Potts is the current owner. The tree have gotten bigger, there are trailers and other stuff at both ends, and equipment parked on the runway. And it is short and gnarly to start with, (800' I think) I found it a much bigger challange then any of the more famous back country strips, what with the blocked approach and other obstructions, including a steel fence post I damn near hit. The narrow canyon was the least of the problems! I believe it used to be called Colstrip. I never did see Stan, and still don't know if it is still in use or not, but as we had talked a while back and ended with "stop by sometime", I felt obligated. I called him later but got no answer, a pretty fun place with the right plane. I was going to stop at Mt. Coyote's new strip, but ran out of time and will stop by there next time.

Tadpole wrote:I hate when I hit the wrong button and lose what I typed, haha.

Even with 10,000 posts I still do that on occasion, so I make a habit of CTRL+C'ing all my text prior to submitting.

Tadpole wrote:Then the mugshot with mah new BCP hat!

Lookin' sharp!

Flew to Hyannis NE out in the sandhills ranching country for breakfast this morning...a little fog on the way in...nice wx for a flyin.

Good day:

Picked berries.


Visited with some RC float flyers.


Target practice.


All by way of Cub.

I had some cylinder re-work done on #2. The only time it was not scorchingly hot was early morning. Here is a flight from last week... sunrise.... kinda boring.

Tadpole wrote:.... I went over to Tieton State, but didn't land. There were quite a few animals on the runway ..........

Deer? Elk? Horses? Goblins?
If domestic aminals the owners ought not to let 'em out there-- that is an offical (state-owned) airport. If that was the case, you might think about contacting WS-DOT Aviation Div & giving them a heads-up.

hotrod150 wrote:Deer? Elk? Horses? Goblins?
If domestic aminals the owners ought not to let 'em out there-- that is an offical (state-owned) airport. If that was the case, you might think about contacting WS-DOT Aviation Div & giving them a heads-up.

No. They looked like horses, my first time over there so I was a bit higher than normal.

Tadpole wrote:

hotrod150 wrote:Deer? Elk? Horses? Goblins?
If domestic aminals the owners ought not to let 'em out there-- that is an offical (state-owned) airport. If that was the case, you might think about contacting WS-DOT Aviation Div & giving them a heads-up.

No. They looked like horses, my first time over there so I was a bit higher than normal.

I don't believe we have any wild horses here in washington,esp in the Cascades, so someone owns that stock & is letting them run loose on an airport. Unacceptable in town, and also unacceptable out in the boonies- maybe even more so. You definitely oughta contact the state airports supervisor at WS-DOT.

hotrod150 wrote:I don't believe we have any wild horses here in washington,esp in the Cascades, so someone owns that stock & is letting them run loose on an airport. Unacceptable in town, and also unacceptable out in the boonies- maybe even more so. You definitely oughta contact the state airports supervisor at WS-DOT.

I'm not positive they were horses. There were people down there and a couple of Cessna 182s or the like...white and reddish paint jobs that looked they both matched.

Just a quick trip up the creek with no paddle. Took the daughter and her boy friend to Full Sail Brewing for lunch. None of us could drink, ha ha. Nice and windy too.

Cheers...Rob

Pretty sure there are several thousand wild horses on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Tieton State isn't that far from the rez.

Great videos and pictures!

Cool paint job on that T-Craft, Hicountry.