JOHNSON CREEK, IDAHO (3U2), East of McCall, ID see also: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Airplane Camping Checklist 6/29/96 (with some images from later trips) GENERAL NOTES: Unless extended overnight hiking away from the airport is on the agenda, do not use backpacks with pack frames: The rigid geometry makes it difficult to stow them into the baggage compartment of a Cessna 182 without scratching the rear window. Instead, use soft duffle bags or cardboard boxes that allow full use of baggage area volume. Johnson Creek has a 150' wide by 3400' irrigated sod runway with parking right in front of the campsites at the sides of the runway. The campsites all have fire rings, briquette type barbecues and picnic tables. Firewood is provided; the caretaker will even lend you his ax to chop it up. Pit toilets are relatively new and clean. There is power, so there are hot showers (well, warm showers), and there are a couple of small bunk houses in case really bad weather forces you to seek some solid refuge (a weather surprise is not that uncommon, and since there is no telephone, the only weather briefings come from recently arrived pilots which means that VFR only and even IFR pilots sometimes have to stay a few days longer than planned waiting for a launch window). There is no fee for all this, but donations are accepted...and we did! We departed late Sunday morning. With 15 degrees of flaps and soft field procedure we didn't break ground until we had used up almost 2000' of ...
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