I Flew in Alaska for LAB Flying Service. They provide
scheduled passenger service throughout South East Alaska, as well as tours
during the summer season. While there I flew the Piper Cherokee Six, or
"The Big Six". I spent many hours in this airplane... N7718C.....
Here are some pictures of where I was flying and what I saw.
This
is the Davidson Glacier. The airstrip is along the brown shoreline at the
front of the Glacier Point. Here is the airstrip from the ground, 
and Jeremy Stout landing.
We would fly six airplanes
,
9 trips a day from Skagway 
to
Glacier Point carrying tourists from the cruise ships, so they could ride in
canoes in the lake 
at
the base of the glacier. They also got to eat smoked salmon and bagels
back at the airstrip. (we lived on the stuff).
There were six pilots who were on the GP assignment most of
the summer, this is a shot of us...
Antonio Montenegro should have been in this picture, but was in Ketchikan
dodging float planes when we took the picture. This is what the GP
airstrip looks like on final to the north 
.
Haines 
is about 10 miles straight ahead, and Skagway 
about 25.
Another place we would fly was to Excursion Inlet. EXI
is a cannery 25 miles west of Juneau near Gustavus and Glacier Bay. 
Final to the SE.
Departing to the SE. And departing to the NW 
.
There were also the paved airstrips...............
Juneau is said to be one of the busiest airports in the country during the
summer, with float planes on the water lane, everything from Cubs to 737's on
the runway and uncounted helicopters on the ramp side of the runway.
The scenery was spectacular.
The Endicott River, 
looking west you can follow the river pass into Glacier Bay. 
And coming out of the Endicott eastbound into the Lynn Canal.
One of the tour routes we would fly was up the Davidson
Glacier 
and
over the top down the Casement Glacier into Glacier Bay. From the Riggs
Glacier you can look south across Glacier Bay. 
This picture was taken early in the season before all of the snow melted.
The town of Haines 
was home to the first permanent US military fort in the Alaska Territory.
On the left side of this picture you can see a square area that is Fort Seward.
Now it is private residences bed and breakfasts and a hotel. The
"Swamp", the house the LAB pilots lived in is on the right side of the
town area about 2 blocks off the water.
