McKinley from a Pilatus PC-12

 

What do you think of these? Looks good from 25,000 feet!

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Low Level Fog

Flew over some low lying fog on the way to Alpine. It's always neat to see it form out over the ocean. My favorite is when it looks like a wall of fog, with nothing the naked eye can see to explain why the fog stopped right there. It just looks cool. Next time I get a picture of it I'll post it.

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Sling-Load

 At this point I decided helicopters might be cooler than I previously indicated. 

No they did not disappear, it was a nice clear blue day. Captured for posterity. Or possibly I was aiming my camera on the fly for another helicopter photo and missed it, the world may never know.

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Cruising on the Slope

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Remember These?

We have a friend that flew this fling-wing thing for awhile. As I recall, it's pretty sweet - for a helicopter that is.

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Nuiqsut Part 2

Still on the whale haul flights, but the light was just right for more shadow pictures. Nuiqsut is about 51nm west of Deadhorse. The river banks visible are from the Nechelik river, a short leg off the longer and better known Colville river.

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To Nuiqsut, with Whale

Hauled some whale to Nuiqsut. Good thing the weather was nice, because the whale smelled awful! Let me just say that over the course of four trips, eight pieces of peppermint gum was not enough. 

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The Shadow

It was a lot of work to get these posted so enjoy the lack of description!

Battle Lake, AK

Not to be confused with its sister in MN!
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New place - Ivotuk

 
It was nice to got to a new destination. Ivotuk is about 150 miles west-southwest of Deadhorse. We took them a half load of fuel, the other half went to Inigok, 50 miles north of here. No one is in camp anymore, they are just stocking up so the tanks are ready in the spring.

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Get the warmies ready...

 

 

 On a recent flight headed north we encountered this substance coating some of the peaks. All three of us shuddered a little, then nudged the heater control towards hot. Getting close to winter in these parts!

Is it Winter?

Almost! This was from Spring, but tune in next time for what it looks like now...

Happy Monday!

It's a great day here, hope yours is t-o-o!

Dutch Harbor Part 2

 Well you see Jr., the runway is behind that hill...

 Crossing Hog Island on final to runway 12

There's the spot we're looking for!

Back to sharing the view!

Went on trip to Dutch Harbor, alternately called Unalaska. A scenic place to be when the weather is nice. Takes a while to fly this route though. About three hours one way from Anchorage. Fairly common to see boats and barges as we get closer.

Yes, On Purpose!

 

I just got bored! C'mon like you never thought about doing this? 

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The Milk Run

All in a day's work, so they say.
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Looky Here

Isn't this type of cloud formation the coolest thing? Glad I had a camera that day!

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Quick Question?

Boys, what happens when water gets cold? Say in the neighborhood of 30 below? What's that? It freezes and busts things? I will let the Ignorant Flight Engineer know...oh wait he already figured it out, and the hard way too it looks like!

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A Little Sunshine

During a hitch on the Slope, about Thanksgiving time. Got to see some Light, just when we needed it most.

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