Stopped in McKenzie Bridge for a bathroom break and found this nice new sign...

Hey, nice to see the sign at McKenzie. Good on the ODA.

After aborting a 6 AM flight north up the Pasimeriou Valley, (the last person to fly my bird apparently left the master on, dumb ass....) I got it all back together/charged up and as I now was too late to head north I decided to head south, 80 miles to the salt flats.

I saw I had a couple voice mails once there and back in cell coverage, so I landed at a abandoned homesite and took advantage of this desk to use as a field office for the crane biz An unexpected hurryup job that made me glad I had, I mean someone, had left the master on! Otherwise I would have been way out of cell coverage up north where I was originally headed and would have missed a few hundred dollars job.

Once my phone business was concluded it was back in the air and headed home posthaste, but I made time to check out yet another old homestead. A little flying and a little work, perfect!

Love your post's Tom!! Did you have a good word with that "Dumb Azz"??

GumpAir wrote:Off to Eureka Nevada to get hitched, with Pops and Teresa Dory to sing a great song and do the honors!


And a damn fine wine.


Good time had by all...

Gump

Well hell. Congratulations mister. No ice weasels in the desert. Long life and good cheer to both of you.

EB

GumpAir wrote:Off to Eureka Nevada to get hitched, with Pops and Teresa Dory to sing a great song and do the honors!





And a damn fine wine.



Good time had by all...

Gump

like I said somewhere else.... Congrats.. hope the poor woman knows what she's in for....

iceman wrote:

GumpAir wrote:Off to Eureka Nevada to get hitched, with Pops and Teresa Dory to sing a great song and do the honors!





And a damn fine wine.



Good time had by all...

Gump

like I said somewhere else.... Congrats.. hope the poor woman knows what she's in for....

Guess you got tired of be'in happy..huh Gump?

Congrats..now you are one of us..again.
HC

Congrat's Gump!
Best of luck, Mrs. Gump!

Tell 'er your cabin up here is kinda a batchelor pad. Then she won't be so shocked when she sees it.
Don't forget that stovepipe, that nice ol' kitchen wood stove won't survive another winter.
That big griz now thinks it's all his turf, you'll haft'a argue w/him about that.
Stop here on your way out there! Mary loves to feed people (& is good at it).

Took off from Whitehorse, CYXY and flew the Chilkoot trail over to Skagway and cleared customs in Haines, AK...weather down to not much so couldn't fly over Glacier bay. Headed up north and found a hole over the O'Connor River...punched through there and down into the Tatshenshini River, into the Alsek and over Alsek lake and into Dry Bay... bummed around checking out the dozen plus bush strips and the "beach". Landed at Andy's strip at first (AK 76) but the fresh Grizz scats quickly convinced me to get back up and over to the main strip where my friends picked me up. Spent the night and following day quading around camp and walking the beach.... I was SHOCKED..the beach is absolutely littered by Japanese Tsunami artefacts...I found fire extinguishers, detergent bottles and bottles of all sorts, medical needles (that I quickly placed in the detergent plastic bottle), sandals, glue sticks for kids, spray cans (like WD-40), etc, etc, etc... I dont know what the solution is because this crap will/is present from Mexico to Alaska... Perhaps they should pay already poor fisherman and students to walk and pick up debris for couple of years...expensive endeavour but really needs it...believe me, what used to be absolutely pristine minus the usual fisherman crap that you find on the beach (nets, boeys, etc from when I walked there over 10 yrs ago) is now fully littered by garbage... not cool. Anyways, weather was down to the ground for 24 hrs until it lifted enough for me to take off at 11:30pm after Paul Swanson and his Bush Hawk XP from Haines came for a short visit. I flew the Tat all the way up then across back to Whitehorse, landing around 1:30am...gotta luv 24hr sunlight!

Here's the route: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/face ... WH6oiFuJCR

Flying over Porcupine Creek's Parker Schnoble's property on Gold Rush Alaska


Glacier flying down the Tatshenshini. Right above it on a clear day you would see British Columbia's highest Peak, Mt Fairweather.


Flying over the Alsek River








Alsek Lake in sight


Alsek Lake


Alsek Glaciers


Dont kid yourselves...them chunks are the size of my house few times over!


Dry Bay- The Pacific looking towards Yakutat


The Pacific looking towards Glacier Bay


Two runways...the main one in sight (used for sports fishing) and another one, parrallel slightly to the right (AK76), Andy's strip where I landed at first.


At Ak76 "Andy's Strip"


The "Main Strip" at Dry Bay - South End used for Rafter's pick up. North end is the fish processing plant. Hans from Yakutat flew in several times with his beautiful Turbo Otter. Air North's Hawker Siddeley 748 used to fly frequently into here to pick up rafters (prior to 9/11) and had no more than 6-12" to spare on each end of the wings! Great drivers

Awesome photos there BCT!!
Great to see the homebuilt going strong and gett'n it done!

Battson wrote:Awesome photos there BCT!!
Great to see the homebuilt going strong and gett'n it done!

X's 2....Thanks....what a world we live in eh

Backcountry Tundra wrote:Took off from Whitehorse, CYXY and flew the Chilkoot trail over to Skagway and cleared customs in Haines, AK...weather down to not much so couldn't fly over Glacier bay. Headed up north and found a hole over the O'Connor River...punched through there and down into the Tatshenshini River, into the Alsek and over Alsek lake and into Dry Bay... bummed around checking out the dozen plus bush strips and the "beach". Landed at Andy's strip at first (AK 76) but the fresh Grizz scats quickly convinced me to get back up and over to the main strip where my friends picked me up. Spent the night and following day quading around camp and walking the beach.... I was SHOCKED..the beach is absolutely littered by Japanese Tsunami artefacts...I found fire extinguishers, detergent bottles and bottles of all sorts, medical needles (that I quickly placed in the detergent plastic bottle), sandals, glue sticks for kids, spray cans (like WD-40), etc, etc, etc... I dont know what the solution is because this crap will/is present from Mexico to Alaska... Perhaps they should pay already poor fisherman and students to walk and pick up debris for couple of years...expensive endeavour but really needs it...believe me, what used to be absolutely pristine minus the usual fisherman crap that you find on the beach (nets, boeys, etc from when I walked there over 10 yrs ago) is now fully littered by garbage... not cool. Anyways, weather was down to the ground for 24 hrs until it lifted enough for me to take off at 11:30pm after Paul Swanson and his Bush Hawk XP from Haines came for a short visit. I flew the Tat all the way up then across back to Whitehorse, landing around 1:30am...gotta luv 24hr sunlight!

If you have any pictures of the Japanese flotsam, please send them to me. PM if you wish.

Any time you get down this way and need a stop in Gustavus, let me know.

gb

Awesome pix JM,
I too love flyin the mtns/glaciers. Lil bit scary on wheels tho (?). Looking forward to inspecting that sleek looking plane of yours! See ya in a few weeks.

gbflyer wrote:

Backcountry Tundra wrote:Took off from Whitehorse, CYXY and flew the Chilkoot trail over to Skagway and cleared customs in Haines, AK...weather down to not much so couldn't fly over Glacier bay. Headed up north and found a hole over the O'Connor River...punched through there and down into the Tatshenshini River, into the Alsek and over Alsek lake and into Dry Bay... bummed around checking out the dozen plus bush strips and the "beach". Landed at Andy's strip at first (AK 76) but the fresh Grizz scats quickly convinced me to get back up and over to the main strip where my friends picked me up. Spent the night and following day quading around camp and walking the beach.... I was SHOCKED..the beach is absolutely littered by Japanese Tsunami artefacts...I found fire extinguishers, detergent bottles and bottles of all sorts, medical needles (that I quickly placed in the detergent plastic bottle), sandals, glue sticks for kids, spray cans (like WD-40), etc, etc, etc... I dont know what the solution is because this crap will/is present from Mexico to Alaska... Perhaps they should pay already poor fisherman and students to walk and pick up debris for couple of years...expensive endeavour but really needs it...believe me, what used to be absolutely pristine minus the usual fisherman crap that you find on the beach (nets, boeys, etc from when I walked there over 10 yrs ago) is now fully littered by garbage... not cool. Anyways, weather was down to the ground for 24 hrs until it lifted enough for me to take off at 11:30pm after Paul Swanson and his Bush Hawk XP from Haines came for a short visit. I flew the Tat all the way up then across back to Whitehorse, landing around 1:30am...gotta luv 24hr sunlight!

If you have any pictures of the Japanese flotsam, please send them to me. PM if you wish.

Any time you get down this way and need a stop in Gustavus, let me know.

gb

gb, I actually took a video and as we started shooting, the battery died..in all I think I have a 20sec video...will try to post tomorrow night cheers, BCT

A video I threw together of my flight to Douglas, WY the other day.

Snuck away this morning for another flight into the Wind River range. Flew the whole range from south to north, and got to go to one of my favorite places on earth--Green River Lakes, at the northern end of the range.











In this next photo (looking back south) the rock in the middle is called Square Top. The rock on the left is called White Rock. On my first elk hunt, my father-in-law and I camped between the lakes and hiked up the side of White Rock on an old sheep trail. I shot a 6x6 bull elk laying in the sun in one of the uppermost meadows you can see in this picture. I don't think it ever occurred to that old bull that anyone would possibly walk up on him from behind. A hunt I will never forget.



The Tetons also made a brief appearance, off in the distance.




More pics of the flight, if anyone is interested:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150898541447968.416879.781222967&type=1&l=9551f58986

Backcountry Tundra wrote:........ I was SHOCKED..the beach is absolutely littered by Japanese Tsunami artefacts......I dont know what the solution is because this crap will/is present from Mexico to Alaska... Perhaps they should pay already poor fisherman and students to walk and pick up debris for couple of years...expensive endeavour but really needs it...believe me, what used to be absolutely pristine minus the usual fisherman crap that you find on the beach (nets, boeys, etc from when I walked there over 10 yrs ago) is now fully littered by garbage... not cool.....

A 66 foot long concrete dock (yes, a dock!) washed up on a beach in Oregon recently. Don't know how much big stuff like that is gonna come ashore, but like you say the sheer volume of smaller stuff is gonna be a helluva big mess. Someone was quoted on the TV news as saying that it will be a more-expensive cleanup than either the Prince William Sound oil spill or the more recent gulf oil platform blowout. In addition to the debris itself, there is all sorts of invasive sealife clinging to some of it which could wreak havoc on our native species.

I moved my 140 from Ramona, CA (KRNM) to my new hangar south of Palouse, WA (WN26). I took the advise I got here on BCP and camped at Austin, NV. Great trip. I love my Drift HD170 and the RAM mount I picked up worked well. It's my first video so I need to polish my editing skills a little.

GumpAir wrote:Off to Eureka Nevada to get hitched, with Pops and Teresa Dory to sing a great song and do the honors!

Good time had by all...

Gump

Holy geeze, that poor poor woman... I mean congratulations I hope the both of you have many years of good health and happiness.

Flew to a strip I've never been to before - Scofield Airstrip near Scofield Reservoir in Utah. It's not a difficult strip, it's high-ish at 7800ft, but it's almost 2000ft long and uphill at about 4%. I haven't been able to find anyone who had been there lately, so we over-flew it a few times first. It is in great shape, very smooth for a backcountry strip. Here are a few pictures and a video:

Looking to the South towards the reservoir:


A side view of the strip:


A video: