First overnight camping trip in the Avid

[C5Engineer 1170]

A Rans buddy of mine and I spent the night at Lake Pillsbury in Norcal last night. The strip is in good shape despite all the ruts from people spinning donuts out there. You could not have asked for a better evening. We arrived at about 6pm, set up camp and then went and flew for a while. We spotted a bunch of Elk and then landed the strip in the width of it a couple times. I'm sure Emmet has a bunch more pics to add. Overall an awesome trip. Round trip with the stop in Willows and some playing Saturday evening was 198NM's and 4 hours on the hobbs.

All packed up and ready to go

The strip.. it's pretty big as far as dirt strips go

Lots of opportunites for Poser shots

Looking North

Tied down for the night

We camped on the South End by the lake

Love this picture

Woke up to this..was a little worried for a while but it burned off at 845am finally

Doesn't get any better than this

Blasting out Sunday morning.. air was glass

Still some snow left

Headed East towards Willows for Breakfast

First time with the folding chair on the strut.. barely noticed it

[Av8r3400 1179]

Awesome, Joey.

Looks like lots of fun!!!

Keep the photos coming and fly safe.

[dholly 718]

Blasting out Sunday morning.. air was glass

Nice pics! Inviting glassy water for the float guys too!

[akflyer 1427]

Looks like a damn nice place to go play! Fishing any good? or just a place to hang out n have a few beers around the camp fire

[C5Engineer 1170]

Leni we landed at like 6pm, set up camp and then went and flew till almost dark. There were quite a few boats out there that weren't skiing so I can only assume they were fishing. It was a really nice place to hang out and only about a 1.2 from home.

[SuberAvid 617]

Beautiful pics; looks like you need to make that a habit. Some very nice country. Can you hunt there?

Always fun trying to fit your gear in the Avid isn't it? I have not been able to fit enough for two people to do it in one trip including the passenger. I guess it depends on how comfortable you like to be, and I like to be warm and dry if possible.