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2009-01-04 Photos Keith got a new toy! A device to help build igloos. So of course we had to play with it. Keith, Sue and I head up to Cameron Pass to play in the snow. It didn't work very well for us but this was the first time that we had ever tried to use it. Our biggest problems were getting the snow to pack down. We had a good amount of champagne powder. Great for skiing but not so good for building structures. But it was still a lot of fun.
2008-12-31 Photos A Cessna 210 Centurion suffered a complete engine failure and was forced to land off airport. I was flying the C140 Redbird with friend Rich. We heard the mayday call over the radio and responded to the distress call. They called that they were not going to make it to the runway and were going to be short. They decided to land on a road. This isn't generally a good idea. There were very nice fields on both sides for them to land in but those were bypassed to land on the road. But roads have road-signs and ditches and cars and power lines and many other hazards. This aircraft struck a sign with the left wing which swerved him left, hit another sign in the middle of the wing, swerving him more left, then hit another sign on the propeller and fuselage and inboard wing. The aircraft suffered significant damage. The occupants walked away unharmed.
2008-10-18 Photos The door latch on the C140 is broken. People have been rotating it backwards and it kinks up the aluminum strap. Eventually the strap breaks. The moral of the story is don't twist it backwards and stop other people from doing so.
2008-10-01 Photos The fuel tanks on the C140 need new host attachments. That means the tanks need to come out.
2008-09-27 Photos CAP TVCS glider day at Boulder BDU (aka 1v5).
2008-09-20 Photos George Janson took some pictures of me with the Red C140 at Platte Valley when George Robbert and I were there for CAP Aerospace Education date.
2008-09-13 Photos We again were volunteer staff at Rally Colorado. On the side of the road with a good crew of other volunteers with a stopwatch timing cars in through the event.
2008-08-28 Photos I bought a 1946 Cessna 140 taildragger! This is a wonderful airplane and a joy to fly. I have been wanting to own one for many years. I have almost 90 hours in different C140 airplanes over the years and have always liked them.
2008-08-22 Photos CAP Exercise at Jeffco.
2008-07-22 Photos Ken‘s Cessna 180 project.
2008-07-19 Photos Sue, myself and Wayne help out working rallye check points at a local rallye in Golden.
2008-07-07 Photos After nine years of absence I put in an appearance at the Owl Canyon Glider Port for their glider camp. It was a lot of fun.
2008-07-06 Photos Hiking Round Mountain.
2008-05-23 Photos Ann was at ground zero for the Windsor tornado. While at work she took shelter and came through without harm. But her car is wrecked. She has had terrible bad luck with her cars through no fault of her own. The twister hit her car hard.
2008-05-20 Photos One of my co-owners was moving the airplane but didn't open the door. They put a good ding in the leading edge of the wing against the door.
2008-05-16 Photos Lauri finds a Opossum under her porch.
2007-12-12 Photos. The time has finally come to replace our wood shake roof. I have been keeping a close eye on it every year. It has held up great. But very recently it has started to show signs of deteriation. I contracted with a roofing company to do the replacement. Of course it is winter and it has snowed but those crazy guys are used to the Colorado weather and are going to work through it!
2007-10-31 Photos. This is only interesting if you happen to be associated with the hangers at the airport. Jer reported that the door to C26 was jammed by the soil expansion and construction. I was there so I took a picture for the group.
2007-10-14 Photos. Fall has arrived and the leaves have turned golden. A weather front brought a cold dreary day and caused the trees in the backyard to drop their leaves. But having done so they created a really pretty golden carpet of leaves! It was so pretty that I had to get a picture of it.
2007-09-25 Photos. Another group "hike" but this one was on the wheels. The group went roller blading. Neither Sue nor I have not been on roller blades for a few years now and so I put on all of the pads.
2007-09-23 Photos. The annual Colorado Cog Rally in Steamboat Springs Colorado is now renamed to be Rallye Colorado. Why? I am told they want to develop a brand. Whatever. It is always fun. This year was quite muddy though as rain closed the event on the last day.
2007-09-15 Photos. While in Frisco we hiked Mount Royal. This was a trail up to the peak just outside of our condo and so very easily accessable. The link takes you to Sue's hiking page.
2007-09-14 Photos. A group of us spent a fun weekend in Frisco Colorado. It was a weekend of hiking and roller blading. Keith brought up his new "Trikke" and we had fun learning how to ride it.
2007-08-15 Photos. Today was a day to help George move his parent's house into his house. It was really an amazing number of boxes and some wonderful antique furniture.
2007-08-08 Photos. Another week and another hike. In order to keep things quick we decided to do the trail along the river around the Raptor Center.
2007-07-31 Photos. This week it was decided to make a local hike up to Arthur's Rock. This is a nice easy hike very close to town.
2007-07-24 Photos. Friends have decided to get some more hiking in by heading up to the hills after work and making an evening hike. This week was up Poudre Canyon for a hike up Young's Gulch.
2007-08-01 Photos David and Lauri sent us pictures from their most recent trip.
2007-07-13 Photos. George sold his Stinson-103 to a gentleman in Lubbock Texas. We happened to run into each at the FNL airport that day and I said, "If you need a ride back from Lubbock let me know." The rest is all recorded in the pictures here. We flew down as a flight of two and then returned in my airplane. This was one of the most fun flights I have had for a while.
2007-06-05 Photos. Several of us got together to see the latest Pirates movie. It was a typical dinner and a movie night. But heading home Ann's car got wrecked. A drunk driver smashed into her car while she was stopped at the stoplight leaving the theater. Keith and Dave were also at the intersection and saw it happen. Fortunately Ann escaped without being hurt. Here are some pictures of the car the next day.
2007-07-04 Photos. Three World War II bombers toured through the Fort Collins Loveland Airport for the Independence day activities. These are grand aircraft and always evoke strong emotions whenever I see them.
2007-06-10 Photos. Ingrid arranged a birthday surprise for Mike. But Mike does not take surprises well and I was wondering if we would survive. :-) A good time was had by all.
2007-05-31 Photos. The last flight of the work blimp for me. As I am leaving soon I am transfering it to Ryan who is one of the original blimp pilots who funded the purchase years ago.
2007-02-08 Photos. George's birthday cake at work. The cubicles look strangely familiar! Keith once again outdoes himself with a really cool mini-George.
2007-01-01 Photos. New Year's Eve Sue and Bob had dinner together with friends over at George's house. Then on New Year's Day Sue took Rich, George and I up for a cold New Year's Day flight. But first we had to dig out the hanger in order to get the plane out. Then after the flight we had to chip the ice off in order to get the hanger door closed.
2006-12-31 Photos. There was so much snow this year that the annual hike to Rob's New Year's Party became a snowshoe hike! Sue and I donned the snowshoes and cold weather gear for the hike over and back. It was long dark by 8pm when we hiked over. And of course it was a little chilly by 2am when we decided to hike back home again.
2006-12-21 Photos. A massive winter snow fell on the Front Range of Colorado dumping two feet of snow. This was a heavy wet snow and really shut things down. Most businesses were closed and we had a snow day ourselves from work. This huge snowfall was an inconvenience to many and a real problem for a lot of people but we loved it and had a blast playing in the snow. Sue and I dug the house out and picked up two friends in the 4wd and went out to a local pub for lunch and then to the grocery store for a few needed items.
2006-11-11 Photos. I take Mike and Vera up for a sight seeing flight.
2006-08-12 Photos. Jer and I take N7390K into Elk Park, CO. This is a back country airstrip up in the hillside South of the Estes Park area. This is a really fun little grass strip to fly into but it requires some serious mountain flying technique.
2006-08-11 Photos. A really pretty butterfly fluttered by today. Sue and I were able to capture a quick picture of it. And then as quickly as it was there it fluttered away and was gone.
2006-07 Photos. North Carolina trip.
2006-05-29 Photos. Hiking up Young's Gulch trail.
2006-05-19 Photos. My work group decided to have a lunch BBQ. A good time was had by all.
2006-04-26 Photos. I fly my C172XP to Richardson, Texas for a business trip.
2006-03-18 Photos. I have been wanting to snowcave for a while and this weekend Sue, Keith, Chris and I snowcave the night on Cameron Pass just off of Joe Wright trail. It was a lot of fun!
2006-03-14 Photos. Scott, Linda, their kids, Sue and I ski at Loveland Pass.
2006-03-14 Photos. For some reason my speedometer pegs off the scale on cold days.
2006-02 New Zealand Vacation Sue and I vacation in New Zealand! These are getting updates as we can post them. Check back and see our trip as we upload pictures! We will polish them up when we get back home.
2006-01-02 Photos Sue, Keith, Ann and I snowshoe up and around Cameron Pass. I have been wanting to snow cave sometime but have not before done it myself. So I dug a snow cave for practice on this trip. The snow was only about 4-5 feet deep. We were able to make a respectable shelter. I think another foot or so would have allowed us to have a really comfortable inside but this was sufficient. It is really amazing how warm it is inside the snowcave. The snow seems to reflect the heat back to you. Also I was astounded by how much sound is absorbed by the snow. Even if someone were at the entrance and yelling at you the sound would be absorbed so much that you would not be able to hear them. But in all respects the snowcave is a good shelter. Now I am motivated to try this again and do an overnight in one.
2005-11-01 Photos Ann joins us for a night of computer gaming.
2005-09-17 Photos Sue and I volunteered as control point crew for the Colorado Cog Rallye. This was a really fun time and a great event.
2005-09-11 Photos Unsorted pictures from today.
2005-07-31 Photos Random unsorted pictures from the camera from today.
2005-06-19 Photos and more photos. and yet more photos. A weekend vacation trip took Keith, Ann, Sue and I to South Dakota. We bicycled from Custer to Hill City. Then hiked around in the Badlands.
2005-04-29 Photos. A spring storm system brought winter weather and some snow to Fort Collins. Looking out my front door for two days in a row I was greeted with a winter wonderland. Typically atypical for spring in Colorado.
2005-02-05 Photos. A fun weekend up in Boise and McCall visiting Sue's sister and family.
2004-10-20 Photos. The work group pitched in and volunteered for Make a Difference Day in Fort Collins. Our task was to improve the landscaping in a housing development.
2004-08-13 Photos. Carolina Beach! Many thanks to Dan and Jan for organizing a reunion tour of old friends at a Carolina Beach house.
2004-07-11 Keith, Ann, Sue and I vacation in Glenwood-Springs. A really fun trip. When Keith told us we were in the laundry room I thought he was joking. But it turned out that was exactly what our accomodations were at the Silver Spruce motel. There was a laundry room and our room was reached by going through it. But the room was nice enough. The first day we took the "Wild Tour" of the Glenwood Springs cave. Keith's pictures of Glenwood Springs caving. The second day in Glenwood Springs we rented mountain bikes and did the ride up the river to the Hanging Lake trail. It is about ten miles and not much elevation gain so the ride is pretty easy. But it was a hot at around 91F/33C degrees and I drank more water than I had on two of the last fourteeners that I have hiked. Bob's Hanging Lake pictures. Keith's Hanging Lake pictures.
2004-04-14 Photos. Sue, Keith, Ann and I vacation in Las Vegas. Keith's pictures of the trip.
2004-03-19 Photos. A wonderful day skiing at Copper Mountain with the work ski club bus trip.
2003-11-30 Photos. Sue and I flew my Cessna 172XP back to Kansas City for Thanksgiving. We did not take any pictures there. Sue went on from there to Detroit by commercial air carrier and I flew back alone. On the way back I did take a couple of sunset pictures. Pike's Peak was very clear 140 miles to the south west and I could not resist.
2003-09-12 Photos. Sue and I take a Tracker Awareness training class from UTS (Universal Tracking Services) sponsored by the Larimer County Search and Rescue in Rustic Colorado. Note that my basement machine's connection to the net is only 12 KB/s and that there are many pictures here. Be patient. The default display is a medium res 800x600 image. Don't forget to look at the hires 1600x1200 pictures by clicking again when you need the detail.
2003-09-02 Photos. Climbing Longs Peak. This is one of the more difficult fourteeners in Colorado. Sue, Jenny, Alan and myself make a two day trip to camp up at the boulderfield and then summit the next day. This was the toughest fourteener I have climbed yet and there are few pictures because of it. I did not have the free brain cells to take more. Sue wrote a nice travel log of the trip so I won't say too much here and will leave you to read her journal.
2003-08-17 Photos. Climbing Mount Bierstadt. This is one of the fourteeners in Colorado. Sue and I join our friend Betsy and others for this hike.
2003-08-07 Photos. Columbia Point memorial. Sue and I help in the event by volunteering as sherpas for the dedication of the newly named Columbia Point. We also hiked around Humboldt Peak.
2003-08-05 Photos. Dennis Clarke gives a show and tell presentation of some of his ongoing robotics projects.
2003-07-13 Photos. I have not climbed a fourteener since Long's Peak many years ago. This was Sue's first. A good Colorado hike.
2003-03-20 Photos. Friends of ours tormented us by sending pictues from the ski condo. We were not able to get there because all of the mountain passes were closed.
2003-03-20 Photos. A few more pictures of the snow. This one has a ski jump that needs to be seen to be believed.
2003-03-19 Photos. A March snowstorm has buried us. Here are some pictures of us digging out of it. We wanted to be up at the mountain but the passes were closed and so we could not get there.
2002-11-23 Photos. Our pictures of our trip to Boise to visit Sue's family.
2002-11-23 Photos. Manny's pictures of our trip to Boise. They really came out much better than ours did.
2002-10-11 Photos. Not sure what motivated the work group to go play paintball. But it was a lot of fun regardless.
2002-09-30 Photos. The Tony Fourcroy Invitational golf tournament is a yearly event on Tony's birthday. The rules are a little different than most in that in this event the high score wins.
2002-08-03 Photos. George Swain and I fly his Citabria.
2002-08-03 Photos. Rick Woodruff flies a practice IFR flight. I act as safety pilot for the flight.
2002-08-01 Photos. This poor aircraft was being flown by a student pilot and suffered substantial damage after a practice soft field takeoff went bad.
2002-07-21 Photos. Larry, Sara, and Jason go for a flight with Bob.
2002-05-26 Photos. I look at the potential purchase of a 1957 Helio Courier H391B with 110 hours total time. This is a nice airplane and there is the potential for a partnership in it.
2002-05-25 Photos. I fly to Kansas in my Cessna Hawk XP.
2002-05-14 Photos. Sue and Ken go for a flight in the CAP Maule.
2002-05-07 Photos. An IFR flight. Brian, George and I fly through some clouds.
2002-04-28 Photos. I hiked up Horsetooth rock.
2002-04-27 Photos. Brian and I take the Citabria out for a flight.
2002-04 Photos. George has a fuel sump problem with his Citabria.
2001-04-07 Photos. Some pictures flying young eagles at the Fort Collins / Loveland airport.
Photos. Pictures of the Champ, a 1946 Aeronca 7-AC.
1990-03-18 Photos. Here are a few pictures from when I broke my arm snowboarding. They may not be for the faint of heart. But if you like to see all of the gory details then this is certainly a sight.
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