DirtyComanche Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Just did a little trip to bang off an inspection. It was a total disaster, or what we call 'buisness as usual'. Anyways, I actually thought to take my camera and pictures this time, so here's some... Pulled over at Dease Lake, because I needed to stretch my legs. Image Not Found It was all frosty, you can see it on the rails... Winter is almost here. Image Not Found Back on the road, near Huston I think. Yeah, it's a REALLY busy road. Image Not Found Hmm, snow ahead... Image Not Found Somewhere past Kitwanga, stopped to stretch again... Image Not Found Old FSR I was dying to take a drive down. Image Not Found Downtown Stewart Image Not Found Drove over to Alaska (Hyder) because we were bored, nice little pond near the bear feeding grounds. Image Not Found This area is a tourist attraction, the bears feed on the running salmon, and people pay big bucks to watch from relative safety. The fish are done, and the bears are about to go to sleep, so all is quiet. Image Not Found The Pacific Image Not Found Image Not Found We drove the truck out on this rotten old pier. We took bets on if a 1-ton would break it or not... Well, the truck didn't wind up in the drink... Image Not Found Image Not Found Image Not Found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 The next day we drove/flew to this place... Atco-vill, your home in the middle of nowhere! No snow yet, and the weather was still nice! Image Not Found Of course, we got there at noonish and the machine was still going to fly for the rest of the day... And away it goes. Image Not Found Apparently they felt there was a need to have an aluminum boat in the mountains :P Image Not Found Quantum was flying in fuel with a 205, so I took some pics (being bored) Image Not Found Image Not Found So, we worked through the night, and got this baby peachy to go. Notice, there is now snow. It rained for the first 3 hours, then it snowed like mad... It's above freezing, so you can't tell we actually had 8" of snow-fall. Image Not Found Good-bye snowy camp. Image Not Found Image Not Found I didn't take any pictures on the way back. We were just trying to GTFO before we got conned into doing anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aemsee Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Thanks for sharing the pics. Looks like heaven to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 Thanks for sharing the pics. Looks like heaven to me. It's a neat place. I wish I'd taken more pictures on the way there and back... There was huge sections of the trip that I simply didn't stop, as I was trying to get there early enough to fly into the camp that same day (no dice). The weather wasn't too cooperative while I was in camp either, or I could have got some awesome pictures from the machine on the way in/out. As it was we were dodging the fog/clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Beautiful country Dirty, great pics. Enjoyed it. :cheers: Have you ever read James Clavell's Whirlwind? Great book detailing the pullout of the Brit 212 and 206 choppers out of Iran when the Shah was overthrown and the mad Ayatollah Khomeini came into power. You would like it. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNi Beast Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Dude that's nice but your still getting banned :Canadaflag: :teehee: Those are some beautiful shots of those places, those roads are what I want to take my rig on and just drive and enjoy it all. One day :driving: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 Beautiful country Dirty, great pics. Enjoyed it. :cheers: Have you ever read James Clavell's Whirlwind? Great book detailing the pullout of the Brit 212 and 206 choppers out of Iran when the Shah was overthrown and the mad Ayatollah Khomeini came into power. You would like it. :D Never read it... I might have to track down a copy. It'll give me something to read for when things are slow. I like these machines - they all have so much history given their age. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSimon Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 So what exactly do you do ..... and are you hiring :brows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvusse Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 You suck! :D I miss Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 So what exactly do you do ..... and are you hiring :brows: I'm an AME apprentice... It's AMT in the states (basically the same thing). AME - Aircraft Maintenace Engineer. Basically, we try to keep things flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNi Beast Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 So what exactly do you do ..... and are you hiring :brows: I'm an AME apprentice... It's AMT in the states (basically the same thing). AME - Aircraft Maintenace Engineer. Basically, we try to keep things flying. :hmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 I guess that sounded bad. :roll: Okay, we make it fly and fly reliably. And find the problems on the gound before they are a problem in flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNi Beast Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 :laughin: :wrench: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69CamaroSS Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 awsome pics. i went to alaska with my mom way back when i was 15 for a week or so. it was the best place i ever went to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oizarod115 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 awsome pics. i went to alaska with my mom way back when i was 15 for a week or so. it was the best place i ever went to. same here, we went and camped and hiked and stayed with relatives for 2 weeks, BEAUTIFUL. bald eagles everywhere and moose. and bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdesigns Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I want to go snowmobiling... on a lake! :brows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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