Author: Loon Haunt Outposts

We drove to Park Rapids to pick up the airplane. The new paint looks great. As you can see we kept the same paint scheme. Bill flew from Park Rapids to Fort Frances to clear customs and then to Selkirk Manitoba to change from wheels to floats.

Howey Bay still has ice but this shot of our bay shows only one patch of ice floating out in the middle. We could fly from our base to our lakes now if we had an airplane. There would be no point because it is more than a month until fishing…

The temperature outside is 76 F. The picture at left looking from our dock north to the lake. Most of the snow is gone from our yard. The ice is looking very dark. The weather should cool tomorrow. The heat wave was great while it lasted.

Red Lake has had very warm and sunny weather for the past week with more on the way. Everyone is talking about a record early break up. It would be great to get some serious rain in what remains of March and April. The water levels are very low. When we left Goose…

We are in Fort Frances waiting for the weather to improve so Bill can fly the airplane to Park Rapids, Minnesota, for repairs. The picture was taken yesterday morning at Red Lake. It took one hour to fly to Fort Frances and then all day waiting for weather and dealing with customs to…

Winter arrived with a vengeance this week. Up to now we have had mild temperatures and little snow. This morning we had 40 below. The picture at left was taken from the ice in front of Green Airways. Our vehicle is on the side of the road that crosses the lake…

Bill managed to fly to Winnipeg on floats last week and return the same day to Red Lake on wheels. The airplane will have go to Minnesota to be repaired and painted. There is a paint shop in Park Rapids, Minnesota, that painted our airplane about 20 years ago and we were…