Vanessa Jump Nelson’s flight over the Cascades in her J3 Cub

Jun 2012 Vanessa Jump Nelson’s flight over the Cascades in her J3 Cub

“Thank you” to Vanessa Jump Nelson for this post about some fun summer flying in a Cub. Her flight was round-trip 7S3 Stark’s Twin Oaks Airport to S21 Sunriver Airport, Oregon.

I flew my Cub over the Cascades a couple days ago & took my husband to Sunriver.

We took off when skies were reporting clear but quickly went to something entirely different.  We found a hole & put down at MMV to wait it out a couple of hours.  That meant arriving in the afternoon, so we got bounced around quite a bit and air density was a concern.

Here’s a few shots of the view (from 7500′ on the way over and 8500′ on the way back) in a Cub!  “Tumbleweed” has never been up that high before with me at the controls! 

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A very satisfied pilot, kicking back at the restaurant.  We rented a tandem bicycle and rode it a few miles to a very lovely restaurant on the property of a nearby golf course.

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The shadow of our tandem cycle.  (Tandem Cub, tandem cycle, makes sense, right?)  We left in the wee hours of the morning when everything was smooth as glass and the view was pristene.

Vanessa Nelson, LLT
Portland, OR
based at Twin Oaks