Highlights from Traveling Across Alaska & Aleutians in a P-38L

After flying coast to coast across the USA (Long Island to Catalina Island) I decided to head north and west along the Ring of Fire. Here are just a few of the stunning scenes I saw traversing Alaska along this route (as logged by PPR)

Backing up a little bit to when I flew out of Bella Coola, BC because wow

Again prior to Alaska, still in BC over the Stikine Plateau, because it just seems like a haunting & barren landscape

Now in Alaska, trying to visit Tanacross, an old WWII air field that was used for refueling enroute to the Pacific Theater. Weather like this was hard to avoid, and it would take days or weeks between flights to wait for good VFR weather (all flights are flown with Live Weather). Well, not good. It was never good :stuck_out_tongue: Decent. Acceptable

Okay sometimes it was good weather, but that would only be in short patches along the route, like seen here near Gulkana. In the distance was overcast I had to fly over before reaching this clear air and figuring out my position.

Of course you can’t come to Alaska without paying a visit to the king of the North American continent - Denali. Enhanced with Orbx Alaska mesh

Looking south towards Anchorage down the slopes and glaciers running from Denali

Aniakchak Crater National Monument - I didn’t come to Alaska to just see mountains. I came for VOLCANOES!!

Mt Chiginagak

the volcano on Augustine Island

Pavlof Volcano (left cone) - currently under a flight hazard warning due to volcanic activity

Most likely find the ice floes extending from land into open water to be unrealistic but I appreciate how more dynamic it makes the landscape look

Mount Veniaminof

Volcano cloud is erupting!

Now we come to the Aleutians: Akun Island to the right with fog over the Akutan Bay and then the mountains on Akutan Island

Mt Shishaldin and the twin Isanotski Peaks on Unimak Island

Looking back west past Mt Kanaga towards peaks I missed thanks to the clouds I had to fly over. Great Sitkin is the largest one in the far distance. The pink is a real thing known as watermelon snow

Mt Vsevidof (far right) is the only peak named - possibly several peaks from the same vent that moved over the millennia

The impressive crater of Mt Okmok, with the Tulik Volcano cone off to the left edge, on the island of Umnak. Okmok. That’s fun to say. Okmok

Okmok

Climbing out from Cold Bay over the clouds past Frosty Peak

28,500’ to stay above weather and spotted the Great Sitkin Volcano through a gap in the clouds

Mt Amukta

Clouds near the water sometimes looked like land

Find the land in the clouds. Wasn’t always easy!

Yunaska Island

Westdahl Peak and the Pogromni Volcano on Unimak Island

These are but a few of many. Thanks for viewing! Full photologs: Drew Sikora’s albums | Flickr

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Excellent. I’m buying this aircraft once I return from visiting family.