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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:07 am Post subject: Alaska 2009 Flight Plans Postponed

Decided to postpone plans for a return flight to Alaska this Summer.



Instead, Nell and I are going to pull the 5th wheel to Alaska, something we 

have not been able to do since 1997.



Plans were already made to make a long flight to and from Monument Valley 

with Gary H, John B, and Bruce C., prior to making the decision to fly to 

Alaska this year.  To complete that flight, fly back to Alabama, turn around 

and head out for Alaska, was more than I wanted to do this year.



In 2004, I flew to Monument Valley and directly back to Alabama before 

departure to Alaska.  That worked out pretty good, cutting my time in the 

air by many hours.



I'll consider flying back to Alaska next year, if I am up to it.  If it does 

not look like fun, I doubt I'll make the flight.



john h

mkIII

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Ralph B

Joined: 14 Apr 2007
Posts: 367
Location: Mound Minnesota

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Alaska 2009 Flight Plans Postponed

John,



Just think of all the wear and tear you will be saving on your 912. Alaska is a pretty place to fly, but very unforgiving as you well know. Another way to think of it is you can have a lot of fun traveling on the ground without the worry of the weather, and be able to show Nell some of the places you've been.



Ralph

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:56 am Post subject: Alaska 2009 Flight Plans Postponed

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		   Just think of all the wear and tear you will be saving on your 912. Alaska 

 is a pretty place to fly, but very unforgiving as you well know. Another 

 way to think of it is you can have a lot of fun traveling on the ground 

 without the worry of the weather, and be able to show Nell some of the 

 places you've been.



 Ralph


	




Thanks, Ralph:



The engine can take it better than I can.  



The Alaska flight in 2004, was fully funded by hauck's holler aviation (me), 

as the 2009 flight would have been.  Rather spend the money on Nell and I 

and a summer in Alaska this year.



If I get fired up about it next year, I'll hop in Miss P'fer and make my 

fourth flight to Alaska.



Nell will get to meet most of my friends on the way and in Alaska that were 

made because of the Kolb airplane.  We plan to drive the Dalton Highway to 

Deadhorse/Purdhoe Bay.  Jim Helmericks will fly over in his 206 and take us 

the 40 sm back to Colville Village, his home on an island in the Colville 

River Delta on the Artic Ocean, NW of Deadhorse.  I have spent time with Jim 

and Teanna Helmericks the last two flights to Alaska.  Jim's Dad was Bud 

Helmericks, an accomplished Alaska Bush Pilot and Author.  Him Mom is also 

an author.  They both wrote about Alaska and the North Country around the 

Brooks Range and the North Slope.



Then there is Jack Reakoff, a trapper in Wiseman, Alaska, north of Coldfoot, 

AK, in the Arctic.  I met Jack on the 1994 flight.  I have been fortunate to 

visit him every flight.  Nell and I stopped in to see him at Wiseman in 

1997, but he and the family had gone south to fish commercially for salmon. 

Sure was sorry we missed him, but did get to visit with June Reakoff, his 

Mom.



There's a string of other folks from Alabama to Alaska and back that I want 

to stop and visit with.  Folks that were friendly and hospitable to a guy 

from Alabama in a little bitty airplane a long way from home.



Not upset or disappointed I am not going this year.  Just could not get that 

"fire in the pit of my stomach" urge to go.



Maybe next year.



john h

mkIII

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