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I hadn’t flown the cub in 3 months! So when I got the skis put on this morning I flew straight to this iceberg for an Instagram photo op. That way you could all think Im just constantly adventuring. Truth is I only had a little time and I needed to fly the cub to knock the rust off the cam, and test my new ski bottoms...so I threw my bike on. When I saw this iceberg with other ski tracks around it I couldn’t resist. I only rode for like 10 minutes, but thats enough to get me outta breath, and get this picture. It was fun, and super beautiful, Thankful to live in a state where even a quick maintenance flight can be a mini adventure. It was awfully cold out, I was thankful when the engine started and the heater kicked on... #alaska #is #rad #blueiceaviation #fatback

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Well ... this should be fun. Remember the first engine we hung on this beast @mario.r.maccarone? Good memories. And a quick avgeek comment to the 185 owners.... you see that fancy alternator bracket attached to the engine leg? Those cost more than $5000 from Continental. But if you order an IO520D172B ... that “172B”part gets you that leg for no additional expense. It fits the Plane Power alternator real well. The reason it’s worth noting is that the smart people have told me there is a harmonic vibration on some Cessna alternator pulleys 🤷‍♂️. I dunno, but I do know I broke a couple alternator brackets before discovering this beefy mount. Hopefully that saves somebody a headache. #avgeek #IO520 #cessna185 #januaryprojects #spanalaska #blueiceaviation #aircraftmechanic

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I did not do any editing to these pics. I often do, but not this time. Straight off the camera into Instagram. They were taken yesterday in “JPEG basic” because I forgot to put the camera on at least “JPEG fine” ... shoulda been RAW I suppose, considering the scene. They were all taken through scratched plexi-glass windows. They are off my Nikon D7100 with it set to “Auto” because I dont like dorking with exposure when trying to fly an airplane. My point is this .... if you find yourself over the Alaska Range in January at sunrise, just start pointing the camera and firing at anything, you can’t screw it up. I wish you all could have seen it. Absolutely beautiful. The pictures don’t do it justice. #photography #nerd #nikon #d7100 #alaskarange #alaska #january #sunrise

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It’s carrot eating season. Pam’s Carrots are my favorite! #pamscarrots @crbue. The other picture shows me doing an unfortunate thing at -21F ... opening the hangar door and repositioning the planes a couple minutes ago. Argh! #firstworldproblemsinthecold

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Gave this guy a BFR this weekend. He did awesome, as usual. (No I don’t offer flight instruction ... sorry). I taught Josef to fly in my old 172, then he bought this sweet Citabria. So if you see this plane out-and-about just know, the skies aren’t safe!! :) He’s a great pilot and an awesome mechanic, If I’ve got broken stuff this is the guy I call @djhessrepair. I highly recommend his services. We’re hoping to put a new engine on the 185 later this month together. #bfr #cold #citabria #carhartt #maintenance

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2020 has been totally awesome so far! ... but it’s going to struggle to keep up with 2019. 2019 was pretty rad. A quick recap of the Keller life if you care to keep reading. The girls and I are SO thankful for our health our friends and our family...because we played pretty hard this past year. I fully acknowledge that not everyone gets these opportunities, and it’s by little or no credit of our own that we do. The only appropriate response I know is to give thanks to God. The giver of the good and the allow-er of the bad. I have many more thoughts and beliefs on that topic, but I’m not sure Instagram is the place. I just don’t want ya’ll looking at these pictures thinking I’m tooting my own horn or something. I’ve done plenty of that over the years, but Life has a way of trimming you down. But, yes we played hard. Samantha got back into riding horses. I love so much that she is able to do that. The girls both skied from the top of Alyeska. We visited Silver Salmon Creek and made new friends. I rekindled an old love of Mt. Biking. (I also totally screwed up on a jump and wiped out really hard and ended up with a titanium strap and a broken rib 6 days before hunting season.) We built a water slide in a culvert and partied there FOR DAYS with friends. :) I turned 40 years old. We got into family dirt biking. I bought a karaoke machine. We visited Mom and Dad in Halibut Cove. And went skiing at Mt. Bachelor with old friends. Ali broke her wrist hover boarding, and is still in a cast. Mae lost some teeth. I put another 820 hours on the airplanes. There is just so much to be thankful for I could keep typing for days. But this post is taking too long and I need to go plow snow!! Happy New Year my Instagram friends. #newyear #2020 #thankful

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