Backcountry Pilot

We've jokingly called it a "Burning Man" for airplane junkies, but it's got everything you care about: Bush planes, wide-open backcountry landing zones, campfires, guns, explosions, and a free t-shirt.

A Washington state pilot turns his Cessna 170 on course for the 2016 High Sierra fly-in with a play-by-play account of his journey to the 7th annual high desert backcountry event.

A young pilot guides a Piper Tri-Pacer to his first-ever fly-in: the annual High Sierra event in the high desert of Nevada, where memories are cemented by golden light and relentless dust.

A group of friends depart from the foot of the southern Sierra in their vintage taildraggers, bound for a fly-in in Oregon, and discover one high desert gem after another along the way.