Flying High, Climbing Higher: Adventures Around the Globe
September 2022 - After flying around in north eastern Alaska for a week with my friend Michael, my friend flew home to and my dad came over from Denmark. My dad and I then had a week to fly my Cessna 185 back to California, back to Byron inland from San Francisco where I have... Continue Reading →
August 2022 - My Cessna 185 was parked in Talkeetna, Alaska, early summer 2022, and now I had the chance to come back and fly it for a week before taking it back to California. A very good pilot friend of mine - Michael Lemvig Olsen - joined me on this trip, this was his... Continue Reading →
August 2022 - The eruption at Meradalir, close to Reykjavik and even closer to Keflavik, started on August 3rd, and I happened to have a return ticket to Iceland very early morning on August 4th. I landed in Keflavik half past eight in the morning, got on the bus to Reykjavik where a rental car... Continue Reading →
July 2022 - For three days, and with best friends Ida and Carsten, I hiked four selected trails among rivers, wine yards, castles, cozy towns and beautiful forests, in the Rhein-Mosel area of Germany. Premiumwanderweg: Bleidenberger Ausblicke (15,2 km. roundtrip, 571 meters up and down).Cochem - Seits-Kapelle - Pinnerkreuz (9,4 km. roundtrip, 342 meters up... Continue Reading →
July 2022 - On a stunning beautiful summer day in Iceland, I finally hiked over Fimmvörðuháls, the ice-free area between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull, from Þórsmörk to Skógafoss. 24 km, 1200 meters up, 1400 meters down, 7 hours including breaks. This trail is one of the most epic trails in Iceland and is part... Continue Reading →
June 2022 - End of June, together with my younger son Troels, i climbed the very accessible Mt. Elbert in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, CO. With 4.401 meters or 14.440 feet, Mt. Elbert is the highest peak in Rocky Mountains, highest peak in Colorado and second highest peak in continental US (after Mt. Whitney... Continue Reading →
May 2022 - Together with best friend Frode Kjems Uhre I flew my Cessna 185 back to Alaska along Vancouver Island, the western fjords of Canada and southern Alaska. Back in Talkeetna we stayed with nine friends from Denmark and did a few tours with overnight camping. Fly and dive. First two days on our... Continue Reading →
April 2022 - Cross Country from Houston to Seattle. Four days, Seventeen hundred nautical miles, twenty hours and twenty minutes of flight time, twelve stops. In my Cessna Skywagon. With my youngest son Troels. And finally, a few days with good friends - John and Becky - in Seattle before returning to Denmark. First time... Continue Reading →
March 2022 - From Tracy just inland from San Francisco to Houston in my Cessna 185. Together with my son Søren. Seven days of cross country flying, 25 hours airborne and almost 3.000 nautical miles flown (with plenty of tail wind). With landings at Minden-Tahoe (KMEV), South Valley/Salt Lake City (U42), Grand Junction (KGJT), Lake... Continue Reading →
December 2021 - With Frode Kjems Uhre i flew back to California for flying my Cessna 185 for another week. Less than a month after going there and doing the same with my oldest son Søren Jøhnk. On this trip we headed due east from Tracy where mu plane is hangared, eventually reaching Lake County/Leadville... Continue Reading →