Death Valley - April 2008

Death Valley for a little hiking, camping and shooting stuff

Found some wildflowers in the sand dunes and decided to land and pull out the guns...

We shot the .40 S&W, 12-gauge shotgun (my first time shooting clay discs - I didn't stink too bad!), and the .454 Casull (which scared the crap out of me and I only fired it once!). Shaun on the other hand, was a perfect shot, once again...

We took off again to head toward Death Valley and found a really cool dried lake bed to land in. Only the crust was hard, about 1/2 inch below was gooey salty stuff - pretty interesting.

Ah, our little oasis in the desert... Just a few palm trees and a hot spring in the middle of nowhere.

Life is good...
Headed back to Southern California, found a gorgeous canyon to fly up. You can't really tell, but the ground was covered with wildflowers. We landed here and explored for a few... the Super Cub is awesome. But the pilot is even better. :)
Shaun found a lake and did a little Super-Cub-skiing :). Another successful adventure and a fun trip!

Shaun Lunt - Extraordinaire :)

Ok, so I have to toot Shaun's horn for a minute - because he would never do it himself. Coolest thing! Shaun and his photography are in the May 2008 Issue of The Smithsonian - Air & Space Magazine! You can't see the photography online (oddly enough) so go check it out when you're wandering through the grocery store. The article is called "School of Hard Rocks". Also, if you want to see more, go look at his Super Cub adventures in Alaska at
http://www.shaunlunt.typepad.com/
He is an amazing pilot and photographer - just ask The Smithsonian! :)

April Fool's Day

I pulled April Foolio's Day on the 2nd this year - everybody would have been too suspecting otherwise. I actually DID have a hair appointment - but only cut off about 4 inches. The wig store helped me elaborate. It was great - everybody was very diplomatic and kind. I now know that I can't trust anybody... ;)