Marathon

4:34:30

A few flying pictures from this past summer.

I'm back in McMurdo. No one got into my stuff over the winter, so thats good news. It's -10F and windy out.

It's getting close to time to head back to Antarctica again. Westword published an article about working in Antarctica. It does a pretty good job of covering the good and bad.
Read it here

The salmon are in

The King Salmon are starting to trickle in. I caught this 43 pound fish a couple days ago.

The new Champ is done and flying. We took the fleet out in formation a couple days ago and made sure to get the Mountain in the pictures. Photo ship was a Maule M7.

UH OH...

A couple guys almost ate it a few days ago, ran out of space landing on a mountain top, tried to make a hard turn at the last second and ended up dangling off the side. Both made it out by climbing out the left side, no injuries. They were rescued in a short time by a local pilot. This was just a few miles away from Talkeetna. Airplane is a Taylorcraft.

Update...

Lets see where did I leave off...I zipped up to Arthurs's Pass, New Zealand for a few days, one day up to the top of Avalanche Peak.




A few days later I was in Brisbane. I stayed with some locals through www.couchsurfing.org then spent a few days in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold coast hanging out and one day of surfing, but I seem to have not taken a single picture of these days. Then a bus ride up to Fraser Island for a 3 day walk. Lots of critters around.



A monitor lizard, about 1 yard long.


Dingos, despite what a few people tried to tell me about dingos being a meter high at the shoulder, or taking your children, or whatever I could never get one to get close enough for a picture. They always ran away, were very skittish, and all were about the size of a small coyote.


Okay, thats all I have for now. I'm back in Talkeetna. The snow is melting and the summer season is starting to get going.