Wolverine air strip in Wrangell-St Elias National Park

[kestrel]

Wolverine is about 800 ft long at 5,500 ft of elevation. It wasn't even a challenge with the Bearhawk. The hard part was spotting the safe landing area so that we could line up on it. Emilie is doing the flying in this clip.

https://vimeo.com/763591094

[kestrel]

Landing the Nikolai Pass airstrip in Wrangell St Elias National Park. This one was about 900 ft, bounded by a hill at one end and a hump that is hard to see on the other.

https://vimeo.com/756246352

[Chewie]

Awesome. What was the wind when you took off?

[kestrel]

Very light wind, generally cross from the left on takeoff.

[Utah-Jay]

Awesome videos

[Brett795]

Thanks for sharing. Very intimidating from a pilot in the Midwest where we just have flat corn, wheat, sunflowers & bean fields in northeast Indiana.

[alaskabearhawk]

Both perfect places to have a snack! And thank you Emilie for not putting that god-awful rock music background track as tens of thousands of others on YouTube/Vimeo have done!

[kestrel]

I'll let her know! :-)

[RatherBFlying]

This is my dream! Love Wrangell St Elias. Awesome videos, thanks for posting.

[rodsmith]

You are making me very nostalgic for Alaska, I never got to those strips in my Maule or was even aware of them.

[kestrel]

The hard part wasn't the strips themselves. The Bearhawk was more than up to it. The hard part was flying a downwind leg at 5,000 ft AGL over the river valley, then a base leg at 300 AGL over a ridge, and other variations on that theme. The terrain made judgement of distance, height, scale and speed all very difficult. ...at least for this flat lander, even if my home territory isn't as flat as Indiana.

[TrueAirSpeed]

Beautiful scenery and you've captured it nicely. Back in the '80's the National Park Service offered me a job there flying an Arctic Tern, a C-185 and a Beaver on floats. The wife at the time didn't feel there was enough culture to suit her needs. So, I took another flying job always wondering what I missed. You brought some of that to light with your videos. My current wife would go there in a New York second. Thanks again. Terry

[Bissetg]

Great videos. As far as the ‘god awful rock music” goes if it’s my recent videos on Bearhawk Aircrafts youtube Chanel you are referring to

https://www.youtube.com/c/BearhawkAircraft/videos

you could always hit the mute button