That air strip is right below my Family's Ranch. White Elephant. Chukar Flat was where part of an old Silent Film was shot. [The Old Oregon Trail] My Grandfather actually drove a Covered Wagon and team of horses, straight down the canyon wall. They drove 2 wagons to the bottom, and decided to leave them there rather than drive them back up. Over the years since, (1925) people have stripped pieces off, and fires have probably destroyed what was left of the wagons. The last time I was there was 1984, where my uncle flew my brother and I to Chukar Flat, to float the river to Ferry Canyon, and drive a truck out, left by other floaters, floating to Cottonwood park. I've walked up and down every canyon in that stretch of the John Day. There are things there, so special and so ancient. Hopefully people respect the area. In the 1960s when the Federal Govt Stole the land from the ranchers (blm) they had helecopters flying around doing surveys. One of those pilots Stole the wheels off one of the wagons left there. Apparently he believed he had discovered the legendary "Lost Wagon Train", and the wheels were his evidence. According to my grandmother, he got in a lot of trouble for it. He supposedly was made to take them back. I remember seeing them there as a small child, but by the 80s i'm not sure if there was anything left. (Chukar Flat) is the proper name. I don't know why people say "Flat's" it's not plural. I was there during the Rashnish Puram days. That was a wild time. The Rashnish himself, was not nessessarilly "in the know". He was being influenced by Ma Anan Sheila. She went to prison, we faded away, but still has followers, iternationally. It was a cult.😊
I have never seen so many western diamondback rattlesnakes as I’ve seen in the summer around the John Day River. And the deeper pools are loaded with smallmouth bass! I love it out there! I met Merle Haggard in Fossil Oregon back in the 90s.
The Rajhneese Cult had a DC3 , Lear 24C , and a Piper Navajo based at their old commune there in the late 70s; had a 6000’ runway. I landed there once just for the hell of it, and was invited to leave immediately, which I did
@cheweyweather they were going to grind up beavers and put it into their potable water supply. To bad they went way sideways. It was an engineering feat what they did there in so littlee time!
Many Rajneeshies rode Greyhound outta Rajnesshpuram and would show up at the bus stops in eastern Oregon on their way elsewhere. They kinda stood out when they showed up in town.
A pilot buddy who lived around the Four Corners area, once told me the way to spot a polygamist neighborhood is to look for a double or triple wide mobile home, for the grand Poobah, with several single wides circled around, for the wives! More power to them, sounds like a nightmare to me. Looks like you're getting the 21 pretty wired, I just turned over 3300 hrs on my second S-7 and am still real happy with it.
Great video! The river is loaded with Small Mouth Bass and some Channel catfish....great fishing from May-October. Lots of people catch/release wild steelhead in the winter months.
I used to live in Central Oregon. One day I decided to drive out and visit the John Day River and took my dog with me. I was walking along the river when I saw my dog staring at a bush and her tail was wagging. I went to her and almost had a heart attack, under that bush, rattling loudly, was the biggest, beefiest rattlesnake I'd ever seen, and I've seen a few. I softly called my dog off and thanked God the snake didn't strike her because we were in the middle of nowhere. It really rattled me, pun intended.
Great video, Steve. I especially enjoyed the coordination comms with the 3 rd aircraft to establish direction and sequence for landing. Sounded like “Stan” from RDM.
@@flamingoaviation thanks! Yep, that’s Stan from RDM. It took me too long to realize they weren’t hearing each other. Glad Stan was so accommodating. He didn’t have to be!
HELLO again from CYQT. ✌ Another GREAT video. Love the commentary, a little history of the area. Very entertaining. Nothing like GA flying to feel alive.😊 Two thumbs up. 👍🇨🇦👍 Keep the videos coming.
Gorgeous, loved the tilt shift. Just watched the 360, please do more of these! Especially with the telemetry, don't think I've seen that before, way cool!
Hey! You called it! The tilt shift effect worked out pretty well I thought. Ok! I’ll keep doing the telemetry. It’s easy enough now that I’ve got it all set up. Thanks for watching!
I was thinking about you the other day and wondered when you would get another video posted.. What a beautiful backyard you have to play in!! I will have to admit, I love the trees over here on the western side of Oregon, but you have a nicer playground to land on over there!! Maybe you need to add swimming gear plus a towel to your EDC Bogey Pack!!! Thanks for the video Steve!!
Been flying there for the last 15 years or so. To pilots uninitiated with backcountry flying it's not recommended. Ive seen quite a few crashes there. But..... if you're confortable with off airport operations, it's a great spot. Also, It's actually on private land.
You're a lucky man. I know so many pilots whose spouses or SOs won't fly with them. Fortunately, I'm not one of 'em, and it appears you aren't, too. Keep posting!
A group of us in college at OSU journeyed over to look at the cult dwellers, tried to enter, got turned around, but we did see him in him Bentley going down the dirt road. Freaky times with the poisoning event. I remember talking toicsls, they were quit distressed by the compound and follower invading their small town.
Funny that I was there at Chukar that same day, but a few hours later in my Rans S-7S. Back in the late 80's-90's we'd fly the HC-130 out of PDX on day low levels through the John Day canyon with regularity. Fortunately there weren't many little airplanes flying down the canyon in those days! 😂
You can call the Young life camp and they will give you a personal tour of the place. Great video. I'm pretty familiar with that area geography. It was great seeing it from the Air. Thanks
Steve, the John Day river is a world class smallmouth bass fishery. There is also a steelhead run but there are season dates for that. Hire a guide to learn the basics and then go to it! Beautiful country and great video.
@@CLEAREDDIRECT We are 20w mile marker 101.5 west of the Riley store. We have both sides of the highway. We welcome all wing wave fly overs. Wife get giddy when we get fly overs. I cleared 50 acres, of land so we are easy to see from the air. My wife Tee flew in her Dads Bi plane as a child. She loves riding in planes. We have had some AWESOME Fly overs in the last few years. Some Afterburner action going vertical... three C-17 in formation at 400 feet . And a F-15 pilot fly by at 90 degrees tilt and Wave. the new NG fighter I believe it was subsonic 150 foot fly over with a 1 second delayed dust trail.
Yeah I thought I was over the water so I felt comfortable doing a side pan since I don't have side sensors, only up/down/forward. Clearly I wasn't over the water and hit the rocks. A few new propeller blades and I'm back in the air scaring people of New Jersey. (Last part's a joke)
That’s the beauty of drones, no one really cares about the Swiss cheese. Ok, I’ll bite. Lack of left side proximity sensors! I didn’t know I was close to terra firma doing a left slide video shot. This was October. Great day.
Was that a base to final stall horn at 12:58? I was only half watching and realized I pee'd my own pants for some reason, usually that means stall horn.
It’s the AOA tone. I was very comfortable in that turn. The AOA tone is SA enhancing once calibrated. Plus it’s secondary to the seat-of-the-pants sense
I am feeling old now, even though I am only 32, but I am sick of painting houses for a living, always loved flying in hardcore sims like arma 3, and would LOVE to become a bush pilot to live and breath nature in places like Alaska. This is a cool find for me =), love the way you make it all about the visual experience, which is what we all want, and you as a pilot want, I am guessing. Anyways, I learn everything I ever do, including things like quantum mechanics for fun, and so I know I can learn to fly and would be a natural, I just am good with physics naturally, but I know 0 about entering into the field of being a pilot lol. I am not trying to sound like tooting my own horn, but trying to impress that I know I can do the learning part of becoming a pilot fine, just fine, but how would I start into that journey of training to be a pilot? Any tips? Also, how much is that plane, looks affordable but awesome =)
The Rajneeshpuram were in Antelope, and poisoned people there, not La Grande. I believe you were flying over Big Muddy, not Antelope. The Christian Camp is not in Antelope.
@@CLEAREDDIRECT The address says Antelope, because that is the nearest municipality with a post office, but it is not in Antelope, it's like ten miles away. We have tons of places with "Springfield" addresses that are not even in our urban growth boundary.
I put on a mask and fins and went snorkeling in some of the pools on the John Day and was blown away by all the large smallmouth bass! Also watch your step in the summer around the rocks as there are so many western diamondbacks and other rattlesnakes.
Correction there is only one native species of rattlesnake which is the western pacific rattlesnake. In my defense they are often mistaken for a diamondback rattlesnake. The markings are similar.
That air strip is right below my Family's Ranch. White Elephant. Chukar Flat was where part of an old Silent Film was shot. [The Old Oregon Trail] My Grandfather actually drove a Covered Wagon and team of horses, straight down the canyon wall. They drove 2 wagons to the bottom, and decided to leave them there rather than drive them back up. Over the years since, (1925) people have stripped pieces off, and fires have probably destroyed what was left of the wagons. The last time I was there was 1984, where my uncle flew my brother and I to Chukar Flat, to float the river to Ferry Canyon, and drive a truck out, left by other floaters, floating to Cottonwood park. I've walked up and down every canyon in that stretch of the John Day. There are things there, so special and so ancient. Hopefully people respect the area. In the 1960s when the Federal Govt Stole the land from the ranchers (blm) they had helecopters flying around doing surveys. One of those pilots Stole the wheels off one of the wagons left there. Apparently he believed he had discovered the legendary "Lost Wagon Train", and the wheels were his evidence. According to my grandmother, he got in a lot of trouble for it. He supposedly was made to take them back. I remember seeing them there as a small child, but by the 80s i'm not sure if there was anything left. (Chukar Flat) is the proper name. I don't know why people say "Flat's" it's not plural. I was there during the Rashnish Puram days. That was a wild time. The Rashnish himself, was not nessessarilly "in the know". He was being influenced by Ma Anan Sheila. She went to prison, we faded away, but still has followers, iternationally. It was a cult.😊
@@RoysFineGems wow. Amazing! Thanks for taking the time to fill us in on the history. Can’t wait to explore more (respectfully).
I have never seen so many western diamondback rattlesnakes as I’ve seen in the summer around the John Day River. And the deeper pools are loaded with smallmouth bass! I love it out there! I met Merle Haggard in Fossil Oregon back in the 90s.
The Rajhneese Cult had a DC3 , Lear 24C , and a Piper Navajo based at their old commune there in the late 70s; had a 6000’ runway. I landed there once just for the hell of it, and was invited to leave immediately, which I did
Awesome!
Thanks for showcasing some Oregon backcountry for us 👍
The Dalles not La Grande. You got the town wrong. That's where the food poisoning was. Still thank you very much for the flying fun. Darn good pilots.
@@cheweyweather 👍
I thought it was Cougar?
Came here to say the same thing
@cheweyweather they were going to grind up beavers and put it into their potable water supply.
To bad they went way sideways.
It was an engineering feat what they did there in so littlee time!
Man the work you put into.the videos! Love it brother. Thanks for letting us be a small part of the family! God Bless.
Thanks, sir. Yeah this one took 55 hours of editing 🤦🏻♂️
i enjoyed your flight! Great video. Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I have been on several sections of the John Day on float trips. Beautiful from the air or the ground!
Many Rajneeshies rode Greyhound outta Rajnesshpuram and would show up at the bus stops in eastern Oregon on their way elsewhere. They kinda stood out when they showed up in town.
Thanks for taking us along on the fly. Wonderful adventure.
Love the moment you guys rock this is Dennis from climate Falls. Thanks again. God bless you.
I'm a rancher in Sisters, OR.. Thank you for this WONDERFUL video!.. Loved it.. New Subscriber here :)
A pilot buddy who lived around the Four Corners area, once told me the way to spot a polygamist neighborhood is to look for a double or triple wide mobile home, for the grand Poobah, with several single wides circled around, for the wives! More power to them, sounds like a nightmare to me. Looks like you're getting the 21 pretty wired, I just turned over 3300 hrs on my second S-7 and am still real happy with it.
3300???? Congrats! Amazing. Haha yeah the cult world is mind blowing 🤯
Grew up there and did the same in a buddies pa 11, back in mid 70s.. many fond memories hunting and fishing that river.
Steve, I think you are a cinematographer now. That was awsome.
Great video! I even enjoyed the music which is rare and the flashback to the Ashram cult was a bonus, well done and thank you.
Great video! The river is loaded with Small Mouth Bass and some Channel catfish....great fishing from May-October. Lots of people catch/release wild steelhead in the winter months.
I used to live in Central Oregon. One day I decided to drive out and visit the John Day River and took my dog with me. I was walking along the river when I saw my dog staring at a bush and her tail was wagging. I went to her and almost had a heart attack, under that bush, rattling loudly, was the biggest, beefiest rattlesnake I'd ever seen, and I've seen a few. I softly called my dog off and thanked God the snake didn't strike her because we were in the middle of nowhere. It really rattled me, pun intended.
Oh man! Great reminder. I've been pretty careless with Kobe. Glad it all worked out for you. Rattled....ha!
Enjoyed the video. Nice flying close to home.
This is cool! Grew up in the area, my dad and I often took our super cub in there to go bass/steelhead fishing.
Great video, Steve. I especially enjoyed the coordination comms with the 3 rd aircraft to establish direction and sequence for landing. Sounded like “Stan” from RDM.
@@flamingoaviation thanks! Yep, that’s Stan from RDM. It took me too long to realize they weren’t hearing each other. Glad Stan was so accommodating. He didn’t have to be!
@@CLEAREDDIRECT RDM tower loves him. I’m their second favorite!😂
Awesomeness! From Boise Idaho. I used to live in the town of John Day, Canyon City. Thank you for sharing! Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Hell yeah! I spend summers in Boise and Frank Church. Thanks for watching!
HELLO again from CYQT. ✌
Another GREAT video. Love the commentary, a little history of the area. Very entertaining.
Nothing like GA flying to feel alive.😊
Two thumbs up. 👍🇨🇦👍
Keep the videos coming.
Gorgeous, loved the tilt shift. Just watched the 360, please do more of these!
Especially with the telemetry, don't think I've seen that before, way cool!
Hey! You called it! The tilt shift effect worked out pretty well I thought. Ok! I’ll keep doing the telemetry. It’s easy enough now that I’ve got it all set up. Thanks for watching!
I haven't seen these views in a minute.
Very nice and scenic.
Many minutes since the painted hills.
Ranchers horses scatter. Antelope below
I was thinking about you the other day and wondered when you would get another video posted.. What a beautiful backyard you have to play in!! I will have to admit, I love the trees over here on the western side of Oregon, but you have a nicer playground to land on over there!! Maybe you need to add swimming gear plus a towel to your EDC Bogey Pack!!! Thanks for the video Steve!!
The bleeps had me howling. Good to have you back.
Yeah, my wife has a potty mouth. So do I, but I’m used to being on camera! Hello from Canada! In YVR now and YYZ next weekend!
@@CLEAREDDIRECT I moved to just north of Vancouver on the ironically named Sunshine Coast. Rain beats snow every time.
Been flying there for the last 15 years or so. To pilots uninitiated with backcountry flying it's not recommended. Ive seen quite a few crashes there. But..... if you're confortable with off airport operations, it's a great spot. Also, It's actually on private land.
You're a lucky man. I know so many pilots whose spouses or SOs won't fly with them. Fortunately, I'm not one of 'em, and it appears you aren't, too. Keep posting!
I’m one of them🙁. The upside is the loss of my medical wasn’t quite so painful. Still exploring Pt 103 as a means of escaping the surly bonds.
A group of us in college at OSU journeyed over to look at the cult dwellers, tried to enter, got turned around, but we did see him in him Bentley going down the dirt road. Freaky times with the poisoning event. I remember talking toicsls, they were quit distressed by the compound and follower invading their small town.
Love the videos. Thank you
Man great video. It’s been a few years for me but the John day is a great river to float and camp in the month of June.
Funny that I was there at Chukar that same day, but a few hours later in my Rans S-7S.
Back in the late 80's-90's we'd fly the HC-130 out of PDX on day low levels through the John Day canyon with regularity. Fortunately there weren't many little airplanes flying down the canyon in those days! 😂
You can call the Young life camp and they will give you a personal tour of the place. Great video. I'm pretty familiar with that area geography. It was great seeing it from the Air. Thanks
Steve, the John Day river is a world class smallmouth bass fishery. There is also a steelhead run but there are season dates for that. Hire a guide to learn the basics and then go to it! Beautiful country and great video.
@@oregonarcher yes! I’m excited to hear this! Thanks for the suggestion. I’m on it… cheers!
Stuuning Scenery, Cheers!
The bio weapon took place in The Dalles, OR not La Grande. Fyi
@@erlingjacobsen7693 yep, sorry. Thanks!
Love the Brrrrrtttttt!
@@EchoKilo haha first comment on that! Nice catch
Flying like eagles over the fair land.
great flight! I want to get in there with my tricycle geared plane and camp.
Curious... How do you get those video shots off of the end of your wing ? Drone ?
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On the south end of this airport is the USFS Heli Base that I rappelled out of.
@@johnthoreson8775 Prineville? If so ive got a video coming with the heli pilots. Thanks for what you do. Serious respect 🫡
Cool.... If you fly over to hwy 20w and 395 your almost to our ranch
No way I fly over that way all the time! Are you east of the intersection? I’ll totally fly by…
@@CLEAREDDIRECT We are 20w mile marker 101.5 west of the Riley store. We have both sides of the highway. We welcome all wing wave fly overs. Wife get giddy when we get fly overs. I cleared 50 acres, of land so we are easy to see from the air. My wife Tee flew in her Dads Bi plane as a child. She loves riding in planes. We have had some AWESOME Fly overs in the last few years. Some Afterburner action going vertical... three C-17 in formation at 400 feet . And a F-15 pilot fly by at 90 degrees tilt and Wave. the new NG fighter I believe it was subsonic 150 foot fly over with a 1 second delayed dust trail.
The drone crash was pilot error? Just went sideways into the hillside?
Yeah I thought I was over the water so I felt comfortable doing a side pan since I don't have side sensors, only up/down/forward. Clearly I wasn't over the water and hit the rocks. A few new propeller blades and I'm back in the air scaring people of New Jersey. (Last part's a joke)
Is that former QX Travis? Long time, man! Cool video.
@@StuPierce77 yep
A lot of private land out there
Tell meh how you git yo remote aerial shots from outside da aeroplane, facinating...???
Awesome ❤
Totally agree!
The place is not now a cult enterprise. It is called Washington Family Ranch and hosts people and youth.
Thanks! Like I said, my daughter goes there. Pretty cool!
Cool video. I should be up and flying my new Highlander out of Sisters by spring. I might be interested in those 8.5’s if you’re looking to sell them.
Hmmm. I hadn't thought about selling them, but I probably should. If you're serious, shoot me an email, steve@cleared.direct
No,It was not LaGrande,it was the Dalles
Yep, thanks for that apologies!
Fun!
What time of year was this? Fantastic video and destination! How bout a drone crash analysis? How did the holes on the Swiss cheese model line up? 😂😂
That’s the beauty of drones, no one really cares about the Swiss cheese. Ok, I’ll bite. Lack of left side proximity sensors! I didn’t know I was close to terra firma doing a left slide video shot. This was October. Great day.
Was that a base to final stall horn at 12:58? I was only half watching and realized I pee'd my own pants for some reason, usually that means stall horn.
Sounds like the AOA
It’s the AOA tone. I was very comfortable in that turn. The AOA tone is SA enhancing once calibrated. Plus it’s secondary to the seat-of-the-pants sense
I am feeling old now, even though I am only 32, but I am sick of painting houses for a living, always loved flying in hardcore sims like arma 3, and would LOVE to become a bush pilot to live and breath nature in places like Alaska. This is a cool find for me =), love the way you make it all about the visual experience, which is what we all want, and you as a pilot want, I am guessing.
Anyways, I learn everything I ever do, including things like quantum mechanics for fun, and so I know I can learn to fly and would be a natural, I just am good with physics naturally, but I know 0 about entering into the field of being a pilot lol. I am not trying to sound like tooting my own horn, but trying to impress that I know I can do the learning part of becoming a pilot fine, just fine, but how would I start into that journey of training to be a pilot? Any tips? Also, how much is that plane, looks affordable but awesome =)
The Dalles, not La Grande.
Thanks
They poisoned the salad bar in the Dalles
Yep, thanks
Enjoyed immensely! But it was not lagrand it was The Dalles They poisoned people.
@@davidmutschler9418 totally. Sorry!!!
The Rajneeshpuram were in Antelope, and poisoned people there, not La Grande. I believe you were flying over Big Muddy, not Antelope. The Christian Camp is not in Antelope.
@@consentofthegoverned5145 it sure is! In fact, the address is 1 muddy Road antelope Oregon
@@CLEAREDDIRECT The address says Antelope, because that is the nearest municipality with a post office, but it is not in Antelope, it's like ten miles away. We have tons of places with "Springfield" addresses that are not even in our urban growth boundary.
@@CLEAREDDIRECT Great video though BTW!
My backyard!
People and things like this is what has ruined the country where we live. We in Grant county just dispise you city People
I put on a mask and fins and went snorkeling in some of the pools on the John Day and was blown away by all the large smallmouth bass! Also watch your step in the summer around the rocks as there are so many western diamondbacks and other rattlesnakes.
Correction there is only one native species of rattlesnake which is the western pacific rattlesnake. In my defense they are often mistaken for a diamondback rattlesnake. The markings are similar.