We landed at Huntington Airport, refueled and borrowed the courtesy car to eat a huge...picture above. We continued along the San Raphael to Mexican Mountain Airstrip....
At the base of Little Grand Canyon is a valley filled with buttes and camping sites. We met a guy at Huntington Airport that told us the local pilots are working to put in a backcountry airstrip here.
Friday, October 5, 2013.
There is a 3 and a half day break in the weathe...n the afternoon north of Cal Black airport. Our goal is the Dirty Devil Airstrip, in the middle of nowhere nor...
The airstrip came into sight. There are no roads to Dirty Devil Airstrip, it is only accessible from the air. Paul was ahead and we made a low level pass to check for any debris or obstacles on the strip.
It was getting late in the day, but our destination, Dirty Devil Airstrip, was only a few minutes away. The air was perfectly calm and smooth and I overdosed one the scenery and the flight.