Welcome aboard, we are headed to Alaska, July 2008 with Jay "Cookie" Skovbjerg in Cozy III N655DK
Mt. Shasta drenched in smoke up to 8500'
Orcas Island airport, KORS A great place to camp out
River Inlet Strip, Owikeno Lake
Prince Rupert on the Canadian coast
Ketchikan city and airport, PAKT
Met Charlie Greer in his C-170 en-route PAKT to PAWG
Charlie Greer shot this picture during our little trip from PAKT to PAWG
Wrangell city
Wrangell Airpoprt, PAWG
Wrangell impressions
Petersburg, PAPG
Archipelago south of Juneau
Juneau ahead
Juneau city
Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau
PAGS, Gustavus, West of Juneau International
Tyndal Glacier
Guyot and Tyndal Glaciers
Bering Glacier
Going up the Copper River basin
Copper River basin, Valdez is first river on your left
Valdez ahead over Tasnua River
PAVD, Valdez
And I expected to see moose and grizzleys on the signposts...
Weather brewing en-route to Portage Pass by Whittier
Zach here traded me a good nights sleep in his room for a Young Eagle ride
Coming up Tustamina Glacier
Mud flats on NE side of Cook inlet west of Anchorage
Going up Ruth Glacier on Mt. McKinley Keep right !
Going up Ruth Glacier on Mt. McKinley
Going into the Herndon Amphitheater
Turning in the amphitheater
In the amphitheater
The Gateway, looking down Ruth Glacier
In the gravel at Talkeetna, PATK. Big wheels are in vouge around here ;-)
Need anything else? In Talkeetna?
Mt. McKinley with Ruth Glacier in the foreground. This time we are going over.....
Mt Silverthrone, 13,220'
Mt. McKinley, standing 20,230' tall
Mt. McKinley
At Galena, PAGA
Galena Airport, PAGA
Nome City center
Nome scuplture
Nome impressions
Bering Strait or Bering Street?
Nome Safeway
Nome winter taxi. The dogs are howling outside town
Low key air travel.... Beats LAX, though ;-)
Nome Airport, PAOM
Nome City
Yukon River over Koyukuk
Yukon River looking towards Nulato
Tanana and Kantishna rivers
From Fairbanks, I followed the Tanana River and Alaska Highway to Northway
The Alaska Pipeline crosses a river. On an average day, 800,000 barrels of North Slope crude goes thru the pipeline
Weathered in at Northway, PAOR
After a days patience, the weather had lifted enough to move on, first to Whitehorse, CYXY, for customs clerance, then on to Prince George, CYXS.
Burwash Landing ahead
Here is Teslin on the Teslin Lake. Here I parted with the Highway route because of weather, and followed alternate valleys towards Prince George.
Rain trying to eat my homebuilt prop.... It did take quite a beating, but held up in airworthy condition
This white fluffy stuff did at time present some navigational challenges...
The pass is straight ahead and then right... If I am where I think I am!
Going south to Smithers? Keep left in the intersection.
The weather is lifting and the place bears sign of humans
Now it's clear all the way home. That's about 900 NM away still.
Mt. St. Helens, WA. There was (is) a TFR to ...create a safe environment for vulcanic activity ;-)
Crater Lake ahead
Blue as always
Now the smoke is up to about 13500' south of Mt. Shasta. Those fires are really bad.
