Went over and checked out Limon, CO today to see if it would be any good for night sky pictures. Beautiful weather around Denver, but an overcast layer was hanging out over the airport. A little on the windy side, but right down the runway. Betsy doesn't much like taxiing in the wind, but we made it to the pilot shack without needing to spin around the other way.

Practically leaped off the ground on the way out, especially since this is the lowest DA the airplane has likely seen in 6+ months. Climbed up above the clouds through a nice hole and enjoyed some VFR on top until the layer gave way to clear skies again. Neat how the layer to the south over COS area today had this "rolling waves" look to it, not unlike the mountains it had just come from. Pity it was 200OVC there!

Near Mt. Susitna on a lake.

Damn I like that paint, background ain't bad either.

It looks like a mountain on skis! Great picture and paint scheme.

MW

That snow on that lake was rock hard. My son asked why we didn't just land on the tires and saved all that funky noise the skis made........I feel safer cause maybe there could be a soft spot. I only mention this cause my kid is close to his private check ride and we got into a big discussion on landing in snow with wheels. I and everybody else has opinions on the subject that would no doubt hijack this cool picture thread. LOL
Unfortunately when we returned to PAMR we watched a PA-14 with what looked like 26” or 8.50 tires landing on ski strip (some do use wheels on the ski strip all winter) it didn’t end well...touched down fine then saw the tail going over as it went outta sight behind some snow berms. Deep snow? or hard braking? I don’t know what happened, I use the pavement. Anyways....

I admit I wasn’t a big fan of the paint job at first. But now I smile every time I see that Raven on the side. Thanks for the compliments.

Shoveled snow and went for a nice hour cruise with the monster. Weather was not good around her for quite a while. Last few days have been really nice.

Kudda,

That is a NICE looking 182!

Kurt

Thanks. We really like it.

Barrakudaman wrote:Shoveled snow and went for a nice hour cruise with the monster. Weather was not good around her for quite a while. Last few days have been really nice.

Sure love the look of the C model 182. Prolly my favorite year- Nice ship!

Short flight around Carson Valley where we had a couple feet of snow these last few days.

Carson Range just east of Lake Tahoe


Zane, this one’s for you!


More cattle feeding tracks


Over Carson River looking north to Carson City

Headed over to Jackson's SPB fly-in this morning...

Following 210 eastbound



There's Horseshoe lake. Should be hearing chatter?



Hmmm... I must have got the wrong day! Ain't nobody here.



Paul is here! But, there was to be no clean-up on door prizes for being the only one, alas...



Okay, forlornly heading home...






In the deep mid-winter, it's time to think floats...

Lake Winnebago. Heading back to FLD from OSH. Had the BAS belts put in. They are nice.

Didn’t go very far. Just out drawing pictures Monday in NY. We brought the dog along for inspiration.

Kent wrote:Didn’t go very far. Just out drawing pictures Monday in NY.

This is awesome. Picasso's got nothing on you!

For me it'd have to be Computer Aided Autopilot

And to think they don't even teach cursive in school these days. Nice work Kent!

MW

Squash

Simply AMAZING!!

MW

Did you magically super impose that over your screen or are you that good

He's that good...

MQ