Unbelievably nice flying weather today in Oregon. I flew out to the Alvord Desert, which is a dry lake bed in South Eastern Oregon.

I landed on the lake bed and walked over to the Alvord Hot Springs and had a nice relaxing soak.

Had a bunch of fun playing in the plane around the area. Beautiful day!

Steens Mountain reflection:



Infinite Runway:


Steens Mountain closeup:


Alvord Hot Springs:


Airplane glamour shot:

Thanks for the video, Clip. My daughter just turned 8 and loves to fly too. I really like your idea of seeing the world through her eyes. I'm sure through the eyes of your daughter, her dad is 10 feet tall.

Nicely done.

PS--nice pics OR180. That's more blue sky than I've seen in all my time in Oregon put together!

OREGON180- Really love those pictures. I will have to put that on my list of places to explore. Very Cool-

Very nice Clippwagon....thanks for sharing

OregonMaule wrote:
Do the powers get pissie if you land in a estuary?

Is That Sand Lake? I've spent lots of time there at my uncles.

Geez, I'm on some kind of roll, the third 8K+ newbie this week, the weather has been so perfect I've been setting the alarm for 5 and in the air by 6 and flying 3 to 5 hours just about every day. And, when I get back to my place, it's STILL calm, it just doesn't get any better.

Big time rock climber destination "City of the Rocks", I'd rather be in the air.

Then on up higher, to the 8600' level, big rocks all around, but I found this area that was nothing but gravel. It just took a little circling and 10 minutes or so to spot and setup. I wasn't in a hurry that's for sure.

There was a little spring fed pond you can see in the last picture, that if used for micro hydro elctricity, would have about 1500 PSI of pressure due to the short and steep drop to the valley 3500' below! At that pressure it doesn't take much GPM to put out some real power, my own only has 147' of fall, at 90 GPM, and I get 800 watts 24/7, caution:thread drift!

Not today, but Friday. Great weather for my solo long x-country up the coast.

low guy 92 wrote:

OregonMaule wrote:
Do the powers get pissie if you land in a estuary?

Is That Sand Lake? I've spent lots of time there at my uncles.

Yes it is SL

Flew from Idaho Falls to Midvale, ID for a Hell's Canyon river trip.

My route took me right over my place of employment.


Got over Copper Basin and I was informed by my passenger that if I didn't get her on the ground pronto then she was going to pee in the plane...I promptly landed at Copper Basin. We were loaded to the hilt so I was somewhat concerned that we wouldn't get off the ground again, not sure what the DA was but the strip is at 7920. Ended up being a non issue.

Snow in the high mountains but not as much as usual.


This cub looked lonely so I decided to grace it with the presence of my Luscombe.


Flight home was uneventful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nas4O5 ... el&list=UL
Just a little fly around after work.

Flight from yesterday... beautiful.
I used a kodak playsport and held it in my hand.

whee wrote:Flew from Idaho Falls to Midvale, ID for a Hell's Canyon river trip.

My route took me right over my place of employment.


Got over Copper Basin and I was informed by my passenger that if I didn't get her on the ground pronto then she was going to pee in the plane...I promptly landed at Copper Basin. We were loaded to the hilt so I was somewhat concerned that we wouldn't get off the ground again, not sure what the DA was but the strip is at 7920. Ended up being a non issue.

Snow in the high mountains but not as much as usual.


This cub looked lonely so I decided to grace it with the presence of my Luscombe.


Flight home was uneventful.

Whee that looks like a prison facility did you get time off for good behavior?

Glidergeek wrote:Whee that looks like a prison facility did you get time off for good behavior?

Nah, just don't pay attention to the razor wire, security guards, and the highly regimented schedule.

Glidergeek wrote:Whee that looks like a prison facility did you get time off for good behavior?

It's worse than a prison. They gave me time off cause I wouldn't drink the koolade.

It's worse than a prison. They gave me time off cause I wouldn't drink the koolade.

Looks like RWMC / AMWTP to me ??

Not amwtp. I probably shouldn't have posted the pic but I thought the old navy nukes would like seeing what their old training grounds look like.

Is it viewable on google earth or other sat photo websites? If so, it must be OK to post. I worked on a secret Navy project last year & was told that it was blanked out on the sat-photo websites, but I looked recently & it was visible. So if that was true, it was only while it was under construction.

finally, finally, finally, I got to fly again tonight! The snow is nearly all gone but we have had rain and wind for two weeks. Today was the first nice day in a really long time and I got "charlie" out and buzzed around the pattern for some T&G work.

we head for Juneau in the AM and I will try to take some pics then see it I can fight my way through the process again to post them.

Later tater

pokette wrote:Flight from yesterday... beautiful.
I used a kodak playsport and held it in my hand.

Looks like fun!

Willamette International is in great shape!
Well compacted from the river receding and the water draining through it.