Jim Stevenson sent in these photos, which were both taken during a trip to Idaho at the beginning of September. “One picture is of the planes on the ground at Wilson Bar waiting out a storm passing to the north,” he relates. “The other picture is of the C170B on departure from Wilson Bar.”
Quite an experience if you’re not used to mountain flying Jim – bet it was worth learning.
I recently arranged for a couple of days of flight instruction in a Super Cub with McCall Mountain Canyon Flying, based in McCall, Idaho.
We didn’t make it to Wilson Bar, but we did land at Sulpher Creek Ranch, which serves a great breakfast, and Johnson Creek.
We wondered why there were so many planes and people at Johnson Creek on the Thursday after Labor Day and we heard later that it was Harrison Ford and his entourage.
Flying in the mountains was a great experience for a flat-land pilot from the Southeast.