Tal Cabin - Winter 2010

With temps warming up to 20 F and good visibility for flying, we finally made it out to our cabin over the long weekend. Paul has been keeping his plane at it's tie-down on the strip, which requires that he haul it over to the lake on a set of dollies for take-offs and landings.My plane is stationed at it's winter tie-down in front of a friend's float shack on Lake Hood. So as soon as I'm pre-heated and clear of ice and snow, I'm ready to take off.

Pre-heating the engine.

Scraping the ice off the wings.

As we headed northwest towards the cabin, the temperature continued to drop and the snowmachiners and dog-mushers tracing a similar path along the frozen river winter-highways, started to fade away.It looked like there was about 5 ft. of snow at the cabin, with good landing conditions.
Below: Tal cabin landing strip (big bend of the Talchulitna River)Down and clear at the Tal strip.Engine blankets and wing covers on after landing.

Snowshoe up to the cabin.At the Tal cabin!...finally!We had hauled a few moose and deer antlers out to the cabin to mount on the walls. Paul and Coal spent a good part of one evening screwing the two halves of this rack back together.

Hanging the moose rack!Coal seemed to enjoy himself out there. Beaver booties and 5 layers of clothes kept him pretty warm.

...getting ready to head back home.