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Glacier National Park Flight in 2017

By Happy Triker

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This is the 3rd time I flew over Glacier National Park. This is one of my most favorite place to fly. Robert Combs and I took off from Ferndale Airport at Bigfork, Montana in 2 trikes at 7am. It was about 50 minutes flight to the park. We flew about a hour over the park and returned the same way we came in. Total flight duration was 2 hour and 40 minutes. Unfortunately, the air was very smoky due to the numerous fires in Montana. I enhanced the colors of the clips with my editing software (Final Cut Pro). Yet, it was so beautiful and magnificent flight.

Comments

  • Dave G

    Thanks for taking us along on that epic flight Henry.

    What altitude? It seems ultra smooth up there where you were flying.

  • Happy Triker

    Hi Dave, 10 to 15 mph wind was up there, but pretty smooth at 12,000 MSL.

  • Leo

    Amazing footage Henry! That shot of the wall @3:15 .....wow!!! Kinda scary flying in those mountains....limited engine out choices.

  • Jozinko

    Beautiful video! Wooow 12000ft.... 

  • Wile E Scott

    Holy cow Henry, you are an inspiration for us. 

  • white eagle

    You sure promote everything i love about my homestate of montana henry.  Everyone alive should exsperience glacier and yellowstone. My mother grew up in yellowstone and was known for chasing after bears. My grandfathers glacier tour bus still sits in a musem at glacier.  My familly has so much history here. I still remember being in a massive earthquake in helena when i was a small boy i think it was 1959. My father was flying a twin beech dropping supplys to stranded people.   Every video you put up  of glacier i think of my great grandpa who drove a stagecoach and my great grandma who worked for the great western artist charlie russell. 

       So many stories i heard by them on annual picnic trips by our familly to glacier.  I remember the big long tables with 4 generations of familly telling storys that went into the 1800s .Tables filled with bowls of potato salad , elk  with my great grandpa wiggling his ears for us. Telling us storys when he drove the stagecoach between yellowstone and helena.  Their was no cars only horses, no tv.   

           Glacier going to the sun highway was a regular familly outing when i was a boy. I look at your video and i see memories of a different time. It was good.   Their all gone now but i cant help but think they can view glacier from your trike. 

  • Happy Triker

    Wow, what a history you have with your family. I'm sure Montana is one of the best place especially in summer. I want to go back there next summer again.

  • white eagle

         We look foward to  you every year henry. Looks like the next pnw fly in is going to be in hamilton montana.  The bitterroot valley should be spectacular flying . You should have easy reach to glacier and many other beautiful places. Darby , grasshopper glacier  would be cool. The glacier has thousands and thousands of  ancient grasshoppers that got imbedded in the ice. Tom tabbs would love that!  The skalako pass and valley  would be a encredable video with beautiful cascades. The lee metcalf wilderness . Use to be called the spannish peaks .fond memories of camping with my cousin and my dad doing pack trips when i was younger.  Watch the movie fire cook and the hole in the sky for a small taste. 

             I showed your glacier videos to our state represenative . A hughe flying enthusiest  . He was just so impressed with your glacier videos.it was if the sun was shinning on his face.