Alton Bay Ice Runway

[N942VT]

Short trip over to Alton Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee in upper New Hampshire. It's the only FAA sanctioned ice runway in the lower 48, only open for a few weeks. Saturday was a beautiful day and quite a few planes came in. Little town of Alton does a nice job hosting the pilots flying in, lots of coffee and hot chocolate available. Hang out with other pilots, ice fisherman and snowmobilers for a while, get a bite and off we go - good time.

[mswain]

That's wild

[Zzz]

Very cool, Dave. Way to represent the Bearhawk. Alton Bay is getting a lot of press right now.

[N942VT]

An NBC crew was over there Tuesday doing a little piece on the runway. The NH pilots association sent out an urgent request for a pilot to fly in and be interviewed. By the time I got the message they had several takers but flew over anyway. I didn't see any Bearhawk footage in the piece though. That 15 min of fame must still be down the road.

http://www.today.com/money/lake-winnipesaukees-ice-runway-watch-planes-land-frozen-lake-2D80529090

[LukeS]

That's awesome. You've just added another item to my bucket list.

[Chris In Milwaukee]

I'm waiting for my day to do this:

http://www.supercub.org/forum/showthread.php?48014-Apostle-Islands-National-Lakeshore

It's going to be a short season for us this year. But I'm getting my Bearhawk out there on skis, no matter what!

[N942VT]

That was a good write up. Chris, you have your Bearhawk on skis? Tell us more. A couple of us are looking at Datum.

[Chris In Milwaukee]

I have my Bearhawk in a small pile of aluminum wing parts in the basement. But one day...

I was preparing myself for TrickAir skis. Alas, they're closing the doors after this winter.