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Photo of the Day — I Think It’s Steeper Than It Looks

We landed here for the first time to scope out sheep hunting possibilities.  It’s a no-name glacier that feeds the Tazlina Glacier and this location is no longer landable.  This portion of ice has become so side-sloped that landing on it now would be a one way trip.  Side slope is not bad to operate on if you have good footing, but side-sloped ice is a good reminder for why we have aircraft repair shops.  This runway was actually quite a bit steeper than this photo lets on.  So really we were landing on a hump, and right in the middle there was a boulder the size of a Buick.  It’s funny, the more I describe this landing site the more I hate it.  I remember now that as I dodged the boulder, the side-slope increased the ill-handling affects of the ice, and that might be where the stain on my seat came from.  It’s been a few years and we have not been back to this place … I think I’m glad.

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