Alpine Texas

Alpine, Texas Fly-In

Welcome to Alpine, Home Of The Last Frontier	The Commander Conga line at Alpine Municipal Airport	Perfect soft-field landing & rollout...keeping that nosewheel off just like we talked about in the briefing	Greg Walker & son getting their Commander situated at Terlingua Ranch. 2 demerits for using a real chock rather than ranch rocks.
"Ok the plan is Greg & son go horseback riding, Tim you climb that mountain, and I'll go in search of the nearest beer hall."	Dinner at Alpine in a 1920's era cowboy hotel	The tiny dot center screen is Tom Grove on final approach to Terlingua Ranch
"Steve, can you park a little loser to me...I can still slide a piece of paper between the wings" (actually an optical illusion)	Commander butts and that Citation thing	"You want me to land on that thang?
Welcoming committee at the Bad Rabbit Cafe. alpine	Tom Grove and friend. alpine	Yep, those are Commanders down there! Steve said he'd sell us Sparky Imeson's Mountain Flying Book to get us out of here	Some say desert scenery is an acquired taste - I think we all acquired it! What we all learned from this trip was that Steve Posner may know a little about flying but that boy don't know squat about good chili ;-)
The crew taking in the sights at Ft. Davis, the highest town in Texas	Tim Brown, disappointed that visibility dropped down to 100 miles - sorry we just had a dust storm move thru. alpine	Life is tough at the Indian Lodge in the Davis Mountains. "Do we have to eat again?"	Enroute to Terlingua Ranch, Nine Point Mesa inbound on the dirt road standard approach