Sky Cloudster aka Mike Graves flying adventures (2001)

Mike Graves lived down the street from me for a couple of years, and was good to take me in his Cessna 180 out into the backcountry to do some adventurous flying, camping, and hiking. He is and was a great friend and guy.


Mike always took along gourment food like lamb chops and other healthy chow. Here is our camp at Boulder, Utah dirt airstrip. We biked and hiked to Upper Calf Creek Falls.









I am at the end of this dirt strip. Look how short it is! We had to land and takeoff above and around these cliffs near Mexican Hat Mountain in the San Rafael Swell.











A hike into the Lower Black Box.













These cliffs are appropriately called the 'little grand canyon'.










Mike and his friend Jim and I flew to Moab and mountain biked the famous slickrock trail.