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We never made it to High Level, as we turned south east and headed to Peace River in order to stay out of the smoke as long as possible. Show Full Size Photo

Lake Zama, in Northern Alberta. You know they said to us that the landscape would be boring on our trip across, but I have to disagree. It’s such a privilege to be able to see […]

It would be interesting to find out what all the lines represent. From my point of view they just formed an interesting pattern in the middle of nowhere! Show Full Size Photo

It was amazing to see how many lines there were cut through the bush. They were all over the place and as you can see on the left, there are several lines feeding one station. […]

So our chosen route out of Fort Nelson was to High Level, knowing that we wouldn’t be able to follow any roads. It actually turned out not to be an issue as there was pipe […]

The big decision…do we spend the time to head north east to Yellowknife from Fort Nelson or do we start home?? So close and yet so far! We debated right up to the last minute […]

The Rebels are tied down for the night in Fort Nelson. Note the wind sock between them. You can’t miss it …… straight out! We booked into the Woodlands Inn, who sent a van to […]

We’re approaching Fort Nelson – it had been the second day of difficult flying. Certainly the tail wind was a welcome change as we actually reached 105 to 110 knots on a good portion of […]

It was a welcome scene as we came out of the mountains and looked along the highway towards Fort Nelson. Show Full Size Photo

I’m up at 8000′ trying to stay out of the turbulence. We again had 20 knot tail or quartering winds with plenty of gust to keep us struggling with the controls. It was unusual to […]

We’re at Watson Lake and Tom is draped over his tail cone in order to hold it down, while the helicopter lands at the fuel tanks. Show Full Size Photo

We are just about to turn the corner and head down towards Teslin and ran into some brief showers and yes…..some wet snow. The good news was that we turned away from it about 5 […]

We didn’t necessarily want to fly the same route, but out here there’s not that many choices. H’mmmm clouds in the distance. Show Full Size Photo

We left Whitehorse about 7:30 am so that we could fly in some smoother air, in theory! It was 7 degrees at 5500′ Show Full Size Photo

We spent the day in Whitehorse so that the ladies could catch their flights and we spent our time doing some maintenance on the aircraft. Victor Menkal, a Zenair 701 Builder, was kind enough to […]