Hanksville, Utah

04 Sep 2014

Another perfect airfield for me - no one here, deserted, no locks on the gates....

Hanksville airfield

Next morning set up and flew 3 hrs over the Swell.  Heaps more photos of rocks......

Goblin State Park
Since this is a State Park, not allowed to fly below 2000ft, so poor resolution...
Those are hundreds of pillars, reminding of goblins, I guess.....

White Mountain, very distinctive and lots of history.

What a turbulent mixture of materials....


Some of that mixture was uranium ore, thus all the tracks.

Small uranium mines, now moth-balled due low demand

Another mine site on top of a mountain.

So many layers from so many eons....

The edge of the Swell (anticline)

An old airstrip, probably from uranium mining days...

When I got down from the flight and getting ready to pack away, two fellas towing a boat to Lake Powell pulled up, just because they spotted the airfield and are keen flyers.  Turned out that one of them was Jim Olson, from Oregon, who I had supplied Stolspeed VGs to just a few weeks ago, for his Highlander aircraft!  It's a small world, eh.....  But a good one, especially this recreational flying world!