I was flying direct from Palmer to the Black River and this was view over the Talkeetna Mountains. The Talkeetna Mountains top out at nearly 9000′ with Mt Sovereign. On the far horizon you can see the Chugach Mountains.
This was in April of 2011 and I was headed out to a remote camp. April and May are difficult months to operate because the seasons are changing and conditions are generally horrible for tires, and worse for skis. I am equipped with hydraulic wheel skis but they have definite limitations as the tires are just itty-bitty little things and they generally leave me lacking. Any tennis ball sized rock tears up the tails of my skis as the hydraulic actuator can only lift them a couple of inches off the ground. Tennis ball rocks may sound big to some of you, but in the land of pumpkin sized rocks they are small and hard to dodge. I was uncertain about the landing strip at the camp, but fortunately they had plowed the snowdrifts down to gravel so I could land on tires rather than bounce my head off the cieling over the snow drifts. After we departed the camp we flew to Eureka and landed on the lake for a greasy Eureka Burger, and thankfully did not get stuck in the overflow.