Heli Fun

Session C helicopter days. Conan, Tucker and I went with Mark in his Long Ranger AXW.

My view of the heli from the back seat. Mark is on the right flying, and Conan next to him:


Me and Tucker - Tucker is not a fan of flying:


Our shadow on the Jet Ranger (smaller Heli flown by Scott):


The tiny Conklin area airport, about 10 min away from camp:


A SAGD gravel pit - gravity assisted cleansing method for getting the oil cleaned from the sand:


All the disturbance from the oil extraction process, a 4D:


HWY 63 into Fort McMurray - has really high crash/death rate because people here drive like crazies!


More disturbance cut lines:



A lake where someone was daring enough to ride over on their snow mobile:


Meandering river (the Christina?):


Mark was really cool...I told him I hadn't seen any wolves since being up here and he flew over looking for some. We found a kill (moose) in the middle of a cut line with 12 wolves! Here are 6:


1 in the trees scattering because of the heli buzz:


2 in the trees getting away: