Photo of the Day — Looking for a New Strip
I have a rule. I don’t land in a brand-new spot when loaded, until I have been there empty….
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Video and Photo of the Day — Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, the Dork Jumped Over the Plane
Landing on a glacier and experiencing this beauty makes me run around and frolic like a little kid. I…
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Photos of the Day — The Big City and the Big Wind
I’ve mentioned in other posts that we live up at Sheep Mt. for the bulk of our flying season…
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Photo of the Day — Who Wants to Sleep on a Glacier? No Really it Will Be Fun!!
This was taken at about 6500′ during the month of May in the Chugach Mountains. I was on a…
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Photo of the Day — One More Reason Not to Fly in the Clouds
See that black thing poking through … ya’ that’s granite. I don’t fly in the clouds. I should say…
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Photo of the Day — Window to the Ground
All of Alaska’s seasons are fantastic (winter only slightly lacking) but fall does beat them all. When that first…
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Photo of the Day — Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. — Oh, and by the way, “freaky skeleton thing” is a Cat of some sort.
I don’t remember where I was going, or what I was doing in this image, but when I look…
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Building Our House — January and February 2010
I started framing our house in December … and oh baby, we are having fun. You can see that…
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Photo of the Day — White Concrete
A couple of days ago we landed out in this swamp to do some work for a client. As…
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Photo of the Day — Not a Bad Picture
Seriously, isn’t it time to come to Alaska ? Day trips with me at Blue Ice Aviation or multi-day excursions with…
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Photo of the Day — Downhill Landing Technique
My buddy Gar took this while I was coming in to land at the house. The house and hangar…
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Cover the Eyes of Your Small Children :o)
OK, so I posted on January 8th, Glacial Headstands and Skeletons. I mentioned that I would try to track down…
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Photo of the Day — Turning to Land … I Love the Mountains
This is a recent image, and I think it is one of my new favorites. I was turning to…
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Blog | Haiti | My Brother
Zach is Home, This is His Last Report of Haiti
I am home at last and it feels good to be back in America. We safely flew 70 plus…
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Photo of the Day — Cool Things I Saw Today
So, the month of May came about 65 days early this year. We are going on 10 straight days…
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Photo of the Day — Fly-it, Hike-it, Raft-it, Fish-it
My wife is wearing the red life jacket. Samantha was floating the Matanuska River with some friends, when I…
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Camels and Machine Guns
Meet Lyle and Heidi Wilder. They are on a six month tour of the globe, celebrating their marriage. They…
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Photo of the Day — Yesterday at Work
I took both of these while I was out working yesterday. As I have mentioned in previous posts we…
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Photo of the Day — Story Friday — Frictionless
We were up at the base of the Alaskan Range near the toe of the Kahiltna Glacier, and we…