Year: 2013

The Alaska Highway between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson. Still surprisingly gentle and manicured.

We over flew Fort St. John which was only about 40 NM up the highway from Dawson Creek

There’s 27 planes here so far, who are part of the group heading up the Alaska Highway – with Bram Tilroe. Briefing is at 4PM.

This is half our luggage from the 2 Rebels, the camping gear is still stored. Feels great to be here and I’m getting pretty excited about the next phase of our flight. We’re going to […]

Gloria is now with me so it’s now safer to get airport shots. It’s exciting to be here.

Mile ‘One’ of the Alaska Highway! The good news is that the weather is improving for our departure Sunday morning.

Dawson Creek, we had to wait for a Dash 8 to land – the wind was 02 at 5 knots, but the Dash 8 took 24 so we waited for him to exit the runway […]

Grand Prairie Road into Grand Prairie, I was surprised by the farming this far north and as Gloria said, “Now you know why it’s called Grand Prairie”! Pretty country. We did have to fly around […]

Left Edmonton about noon on Friday for Dawson Creek, with our favourite gals on board. The Smoky river, south east of Grand Prairie was muddy but nearly as high as the ones in southern Alberta.

Another shot between Brandon and Yorkton.

I just love the lines and shapes

The Rebel was welcome inside Executive Flight Centre’s hangar in Edmonton. We’re getting ready to fly to Dawson Creek.

They made us feel like some of the “Big Boys!  We had many helping hands to help us put the Rebels away for a couple of days in one of their hangars. It’s a very […]

On the instructions of the controller we dove for the button so we could give space to the larger traffic at Edmonton International. 02/200 was closed so there was only 12/22 available for all traffic, small […]