lancegranite Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Dad and I were fondly remembering watching A-6 Intruders fly below us in the Downey Creek drainage. Another favorite was eating lunch on top of Cowbow Mtn. at Stevens and having a jet dip it's wings at eye level around 100 feet away. Tell me about getting buzzed when you were out in the mountains! A little eye candy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKdljUac1DY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macson Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I remember seeing a pair of jets fly down the valley below us while we were camped at Boulder Basin on Glacier Peak back in 2003. I think they were probably A6 Intruders from Whidbey, but I wasn't really sure. It was a really cool sight though, with them flying below us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I bet Osama has lots of good jets/mountains stories!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 hmmm, did those videos not show up or is it just me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 it'd be fun to have everybody chip in and buy john scurlock a jet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 These are the links (markup the ID only, not the whole url) LKdljUac1DY H02iFmosrH4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMcJizzy Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 1) Image Lake, 1997. EA - 6B's quite a bit below us 2) South Face of Forbidden, 1989. C-130 over Cascade Pass/Sahale Arm. Way below us. 3) Cochise Stronghols, 2006. C-130 even with us 4) Chickenhead Ledge, 1984. Big rainstorm. Big clouds above us, big clouds below us. Little airplane level with us. We were thinking that we were a little fucked, but he was real fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
To_The_Top Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Cowboy mtn too but below us (A6's), and between Maude and 7f jack 2yrs ago. Wild seeing them before hearing them, really hearing them after they passed by (F-18). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMcJizzy Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Geology field camp, Yakima Fold Belt, 1982. A-10 Warthogs loud and low. Real loud, real low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Out on Cannon cliff in NH, there was a pair of jets blasted through the notch. We were slightly above them. Not too cool considering the cliff is notoriously loose after passed through there was two rock falls that I could hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
builder206 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Eastbound on U. S. 87 west of San Angelo, Texas in 1979. An A7U dove on us and leveled out just above the deck a hundred yards to our left. His dive bottomed out exactly beside us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Great stories! I always get a big smile knowing there is a 24 year old kid in there, having the time of his life. A wierd one- we were night hiking in the snow in Calico Basin, NV and we were buzzed by a blacked out helicopter, no running lights and 50 feet off the deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
builder206 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 we were buzzed by a blacked out helicopter ...flown by water-fluoridating U.N. Zionists protecting Area 51. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZONK Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Boy the Stories. Buzzed in the Okanogan once sitting in a Lookout on Tunk Mtn by a F-15 came by even with us and waved. Out in the Wheat fields east of Waterville seen a B-52 flying LOW below us towards Banks Lake. But having spent time the the Air Force, The best was riding along in a F-14 January 1986 We buzzed Main Street Omak at 400 mph about 200feet off the deck, had a big fat smile on My face that day ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Glacier Peak, 2001, I think. We were on a summit when a red aerobatic plane split the gap between the summit and satellite peak. Very cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 A partner and I were hiking up the approach to the climber's base camp on Mt Whitney. Just as we'd got out of the trees and bushes, I turn around for a look back down into the Owens Valley and coming right up at us from down lower in the valley is an F-15 going fast enough to be completely silent to us until it passed a few hundred feet over our heads. It continued to hug the face of the mountain until it flew up over the summit ridge and executed a arcing turn to the south. About five minutes after I'd summited Mt Cook in NZ, a tourist plane (a Pilatus Porter)buzzed the summit by a hundred feet. We couldn't see it coming because the actual summit was off-limits due to the massive rock-slide that had occurred a year or two earlier. Technically, an illegal fly-over according to the park but it's NZ after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Sitting on a balcony in Grindelwald or Gimmelwald or whatever that little Swiss toy town is at the base of the Nordwand. A pure white jet comes screaming across the valley, a few hundred feet off the deck, headed right for the Eiger. At the very last second he tips the nose up and goes ballistic, straight up the face, overshoots the mountain, slows to a stop, hammerheads, and reverses the entire maneuver. Skiing up the final few hundred feet of Glacier Peak from our camp on the Whitechuck. We hear a rumble, look down slope, and a lone Intruder is rocketing up the slope about 200 feet off the deck. We wave, he inverts, and does a ballistic, inverted dive right between the summits. Summited the lava dome in the crater of St. Helens with my buddy Rob in '97, before it got a bit more feisty. The tourist chopper enters the crater and circles the summit of the lava dome and the two naked humans perched on top. Edited January 31, 2008 by tvashtarkatena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Soloing high on Colman Headwall of Baker a couple Canadian Air Force Jets screamed overhead. I thought the sonic boom was a collasping serac that was about to wipe me off the face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Was up solo peak bagging Little Big Chief when a couple of fighter jets split the Dutch Miller Gap. What made it a little different was that it was three days after 9/11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal_Con Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 On the Alpine Lakes High route just after Iron Cap Peak and Pass heading up toward Tank Lakes in Spring snow when an A6 came through the Pass at about 100'. We were eye to eye with pilot. Only thing that came close was by Uhebe Craterin Death Valley when F14's were practicing supersonic dog fights from the Top Gun school at Nellis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Nevada is a really good place to see military aircraft. Try climbing at a little place called the Mecca Boulders. The area lies inside the Delamar FAS,mach 1+ freindly. We were on a small hillside doing important climbing thing, watched in awe as jet fighter swerved to miss our car parked below then intercept enemy fighter flying around other side of hill* *plane's actual altitude may have been slightly higher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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