Pictures OFF the road. . .

[Cheechako]

A friend of mine went camping up in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park where there are several little gravel airstrips with free public use cabins. He couldn't get his family plus his gear in one trip in his 185. I got to ride along going to pick up the remainder of his gear.

^^ Kennecott Copper Mine

^^ The airstrip is up this valley. We flew up the valley on a downwind, made a tight base and final to land opposite direction.

^^ You can see the airstrip on the right side of the valley

^^ On final

^^ Shadow Shot

^^ Short Final

^^ Cabin

^^ View from the "throne room" (outhouse!)

^^ Bear claw marks on the front door.

^^ Cessna 185

^^ View up the airstrip

^^ Big glacier somewhere on the way home

^^ Knik Glacier near Palmer

 

[KVNC]

Man, I have to fly up in Alaska sometime! It sure would be a nice change from flat Florida! Awesome pics, looks like a nice adventure!

 

[ASpilot2be]

Amazing pictures:drool:

With all this nice weather we have been having I have really been wanting to just go up and go flying

 

[esa17]

Hot damn those are awesome. Heck with Mr. Crockett, I'm heading to Alaska!

 

[scramjet]

That IS awesome! I want to fly there someday.

 

[Minuteman]

Very good pictures!

That cabin looks like one of those "silence is deafening" kind of places.

 

[tlewis95]

That's amazing!

:nana2:

 

[Swen]

Very fine share!

 

[CN94559]

damn those are awesome.

screw Texas, Alaska here I come! :rawk:

 

[TXTBOOK]

Wow, that looks like some intense terrain to fly in.

 

[IrishSheepdog]

Impressive! Well off the beaten path, that's for sure. I'd love to do something like that.

Interesting picture of the bear claw marks...

 

[907]

Verry niice.

 

[Polar742]

Cool.....

 

[moegreen]

Unbelivable pics..thanks for sharing...I would go insane in that cabin.....

 

[slushie]

freakin awesome!!!!!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[touch-n-go]

Excellent pics!!

 

[Crockrocket94]

My uncle used to do that kind of flying prior to his short stint on the 1900 at Mark Air.


He said this one time, he was flying a group into an Inuit villiage, (I cannot recall the name, it was a gravel strip) and after he touched down, they were unloading some things and another plane started to takeoff. Well, I don't know what happened but that other plane mustve clipped a wing but it went cartwheeling down the runway. Noone was killed, but out from the wreckage stepped these two Alaska natives who non-chalantly came up to my uncle and asked him to fly them to their destination.

I just thought it was quite something that they were unphased by the crash.

Anyhow, the pictures just made me think of that.

 

[skb51]

theres worse ways to spend your time...
looks like it was a fun adventure!

 

[EDUC8-or]

Awesome pictures! So do most people pack heat when they go camping?

 

[TallFlyer]

Ah, looks like home!