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aoa.images Photographer.
Joined: 26 Jun 2020 Posts: 2 | TRs | Pics Location: Portland, OR |
The Rimrock Lake area is always a great chokepoint for the jets to fly through. Most do when entering the route.
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tmatlack Member
Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 2854 | TRs | Pics
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Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:56 am
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6-26/Friday
Probably a Growler exiting one of their favorite training runs south side Glacier Peak then screaming down the Suiattle River valley as they head for home on Whidbey.
PS: Whitechuck and Suiattle Rivers kicked up the Sauk over 10,000 cfs lately.
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
At Snoqualmie Pass yesterday.
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aoa.images Photographer.
Joined: 26 Jun 2020 Posts: 2 | TRs | Pics Location: Portland, OR |
Any more info on where they entered/exited the pass from? Love hunting for these things but I live a long ways out and am frequently busy so any opportunity I get to shoot these birds is ideally time well spent.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Sort of off topic but while walking from Fort Ebby to Ebbys landing we saw a Zumwalt class destroyer going from Everett to Indian Island. Interesting looking boat looks almost like a sub. Bit of a boondoggle only 3 built at a cost of over $7 billion apiece.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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zimmertr TJ Zimmerman
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Posts: 1215 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:59 pm
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I hiked Maple Pass Loop three or four weekends ago. When heading up the trail clockwise and you gain the ridge you get pretty good views down at Rainy lake and the valley that the highway runs through. We watched someone flying a personal airplane through the valley and it was so cool. They were about 50 feet below us and 200 feet to the left.
I dream of flying one day. I should start working on my pilots license before I let more life slip away from me.
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:24 am
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Got buzzed a bunch of times on a hike up Shovel Creek and over to Venus & Spade. Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab my camera fast enough to capture the closest approach by one of the Growlers but managed a couple of decent shots anyway. The transports went up the Shovel Creek valley the day we were exiting via Spade Lake. Wish I'd been in the next valley over!
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timberghost Member
Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 1316 | TRs | Pics
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I got buzzed in the same area when heading down from the Hinman/Daniel Pass on my way to Venus then down to Shovel. They blew thru that area so fast I couldn't hope to get a picture
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:35 am
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If you want the real action, you wait for night touch and go's at OLF. Park on Keystone Hill, near the DOT buildings. Bring ear protection. Feel like you are 10 again.
I lived under the NAS Whidbey flight zone for 14 years or so.....I've seen every plane you can imagine, as they all flew in relatively the same path, right over my house.
I've seen so many on hikes - from the North Cascades to near Rainier. Midday weekday hiking pays off.
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Bramble_Scramble Member
Joined: 28 Dec 2012 Posts: 312 | TRs | Pics
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Bedivere wrote: | Got buzzed a bunch of times on a hike up Shovel Creek and over to Venus & Spade. Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab my camera fast enough to capture the closest approach by one of the Growlers but managed a couple of decent shots anyway. The transports went up the Shovel Creek valley the day we were exiting via Spade Lake. Wish I'd been in the next valley over! |
I was camped at Spade for two nights the first week of August. I've seen a lot of jets in the mountains but this place is definitely a hot spot. The second day was clear skies so they were all out. I think I saw about 15 military jet that day. Several of them went through the gap between Hinman and Daniel.
Search VR 1355 on YouTube and you might find a video of them flying over that specific area. I think at about the 3 minute mark he shoots the gap between Hinman and Daniel in this video.
Spade Lake C-17's
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6389 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:49 am
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sarbar wrote: | I lived under the NAS Whidbey flight zone for 14 years or so..... |
We used to sit on the beach at the end of Banta Rd. right under the landing lights
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mike Member
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Sun Dec 06, 2020 7:16 pm
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This is not the only place that gets buzzed. It's worse here.
Cairngorms NP
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
On last Thursday evening (7/22/21) at around 5:30ish while driving i90 west past Cabin Creek I heard a very loud noise. I first thought I blew out a tire, but then realized the noise was from above. Something flying low and hot. Both thrilling and frustrating because I saw nothing.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7692 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Last weekend a pair of jets went screaming over Labyrinth Mtn. not very far above us. We weren't quite at the top yet. I wasn't even close to quick enough with the camera to get a picture. I've seen/heard them a bunch of times in the vicinity of Lake Wenatchee.
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snoqpass Member
Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 | TRs | Pics
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Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:29 pm
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Typically they fly over Lake Keechelus then turn to the north up Gold Creek valley and up and over Mt Chikiman
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