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Saturday morning, a good friend, Ken Lehman, arrived at 7:10 am to give me a ride to Bar River in order for me to bring home the Rebel. Show Full Size Photo

Web Editor Note: After some discussion about the Forest Fire situation in Alaska, it was decided that the VFR aircraft would not venture past Dawson City.  The Group had taken the train from Dawson City […]

Tom officially finished the trip by landing at home late on Tuesday! Now my turn, the weather looks good for this weekend so I hope to get back to Bar River to pick up my […]

We landed unannounced at Bar River and met the folks at Springer Aerospace. They specialize in “Heavy Maintenance” for Twin Otters, Beavers, and other Turbine aircraft. I finally had to give in to the weather! […]

The ceiling just kept coming down as we started towards Killarney, so when we saw Bar River Airport we decided that enough was enough. Here I’m on final for 110. Show Full Size Photo

We’re leaving Sault Ste Marie and the visibility looks OK to the north east. Tom is in the top of frame and of course the lake freighter steaming out to Lake Huron. We are over […]

We are now about 5 hours from home and with, what we thought was improving weather to the east we punched in Killarney. We anticipated that the ceiling along the shore would be about 1500′ […]

The ceiling was 1000′ with 5 miles visibility, we were in contact with Toronto Centre and they pasted us off to the Tower. The controller gave me “cleared to land” runway 12, just after I […]

We woke up in Manistique (Schoolcraft) to rain, thunder, fog and generally disappointing weather. We had to file with Canpass, US eAPIS, and then file a flight plan in order to fly across the border! […]

Schoolcraft has always been a preferred destination on the way west because there is a motel across the street and you can get a free shuttle to Kewadin Casino, just down the road. We went […]

There’s still lots of thermal activity in the area, so we had to pick a spot between 3 different cells that were in a line. Tom went left and I went right – so for […]

One of the reasons we chose to go the south shore of Lake Superior is because there are a lot more airports that you can use, if you need to divert. This is the Iron […]

The courtesy car in Ashland is a retired police car – which we think is a good idea. You keep the gas tank full and donate $7 for the use. We put in $1.35! You […]

You can see what remains of the “Ore Dock”, that was built in 1916 by the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and it was 1,850 feet long. Show Full Size Photo

We’ve been to Ashland a few times so it was familiar for us. The famous “Ore Dock” is being torn down…..too bad it was such a landmark. You can see what remains, it’s the biggest […]