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Graham, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska in a 90 hp Super Cub.

Great stop. Drank coffee, split some wood and talked with some nice folks with a PA12. Pass cleared and we are headed to Lake Hood.
 
Steve, Tal,

Congratulations! I have followed you all the way. It has been great watching your progress and most of all your conservative decisions. During your progress I have added up you flight times, which of course does not include the ground times, and I know from experience how your bodies must feel after that much duty time. Truly, a great accomplishment. I wish that I could make the show this year, but other duties call. Have fun and I hope to see your pictures in the future.

Jerry
 
marcusofcotton said:
Would that be flight 400 from MSP? Daughter Olivia and I will be in seats 31A&B. I feel that small plane desire too but doesn't work this year (and the Bearhawk certainly won't be ready next year either).

When Allie and I flew the club Arrow up last June we had made it most of the way through the Tahneeta Pass / Sheep Mountain area before coming up against a wall of clouds, ended up back tracking to Gulkana for the night and morning. The airport there was well stocked with food and a computer with internet access to watch for the weather cams to clear.

Mark J
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Mark

See you onboard...I'm in 22F!

Lou
 
Glad they made it okay. Its been alot of fun checking on them every day. Like alot of people, I had my maps out and drawing lines all the way checking there progress ect. It has been fun testing the Spot and the Spider Tracks systems. I have a spot and really like it, and there spot covered most of the trip. Now I think that the Spider Track is a better system showing alitude and ground speed lets you know about head winds ect. This was fun, now I am following the cub out of Spear Fish South Dakota, he is already in Canada and left South Dakota this morning. Bill Rusk will be going on a one month trip to Alaska and maybe we can follow him as well, he leaves in June.
Man, 8 hours in a Cub is a long time...

Bill
 
flew 11 hours one day for fish and game in the cub... walked funny the next day

Way easier with Auto in the back to spell you, or in Steve's case, Tal in the front!

Glad they made it, should see them soon...
 
Kevin, the Paul they are talking about is Paul Claus, probably close to a million hrs in a supercub. Tal worked and probably still does, for him. Multiple time Valdez winner. Google him, I can't type that much.

That was fun to watch them. Thanks Stewart for the spidertraks.


Mobile SteveE, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
That was a fun ride. Thanks Tal and Steve. I will look fwd to Steve bringing his pics back to Texas

Ray, do you have a Spot we can follow?
 
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Looks like Ray made it to Lethbridge and spent the night.
When I get to work will try and post his spot information so those that want can follow his progress.
 
That was a HOOT! I made the trip from Florida in '05, so I can relate. You guys must (should) be feeling pretty good about now. It's an accomplishment to remember. Thanks, Stewart, for letting us tag along. That was a really nice thing to do.
 
Congratulations and thanks for the ride!

SPOT did not work for the last part, which for us IPhone followers did not allow to follow the last day or two.
 
Wonder if their spot batteries run out,, or coverage? Be interesting to find out from Steve or Tal.
 
SteveE said:
Kevin, the Paul they are talking about is Paul Claus, probably close to a million hrs in a supercub. Tal worked and probably still does, for him. Multiple time Valdez winner. Google him, I can't type that much.

That was fun to watch them. Thanks Stewart for the spidertraks.


Mobile SteveE, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Thanks Steve. I'll give him a google. The Spidertracks is a neat tool. Thank you Stewart for sharing it with us.

Kevin
 
RATS !! It looks like Ray came through here yesterday, fueled up and I missed him. Ralph
 
That's pretty cool that the Coutts/Ross airport is on the border. Can you land and exit/enter in one place? Nothing like one stop shopping!!
 
It was fun watching those two, but I'm glad it's over, I wasted to much time looking at the computer and worrying
 
Spearfish to AK

Ralph, and those following Ray's (wefly4u) progress up to Ak.
He has started a thread in the Forum under, Cross Country Accommodations that is called Spearfish, SD to Anchorage and Valdez etc.
The spot connection is at that site with more info.
 
mike mcs repair said:
the spider tracks link bellow worked fine on my Iphone..???
https://app.spidertracks.com/home.m...75vAC_g2Nv_NGqv-FF2u5YgWh91Ye-1wlhYQqRF38lscl
is that what you were inferring didn't work for you?
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I use the SPOT aplication downloadable in the Apple App Store and its last position for Westie is on the 25th at 20:41, north of lake Hutshi.

There are no further points recorded.

I'm not using the Iphone's Safari web browser for either the SPOT or Spider tracking.
 
Parking lot across from Laird Hot Springs
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Soaking in the Laird Hot Springs.
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Morning coffee via Jetboil.
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Walking into Beaver Creek.
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Sheep tracks across the ridges for miles between Whitehorse and Beaver Creek.
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Woke up to a frosty morning at Laird Hot Springs.
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After 40 hours in the air we land at Lake Hood.
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