City Slickers Visit South Dakota

[ScottSchmidt]

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Originally Posted by ScottSchmidt

...We made a couple of passes over the houses to let someone know we had arrived and Uncle Rod picked us up at the airport.



It looks like maybe there is an airstrip at the ranch. Bottom right up toward the center?

That is the 3000 ft. strip I talked about. We rode over it in 4 wheelers. It has some holes and raised areas but there is about 1000 feet that is really good right now. It wouldn't take much to make it plenty good for landing an RV.

[bldanrv9a]

Thanks for the great report. I wish we had known you were going to be in the area. It would have been nice to hook up with you. We have two flying 10's in the area, one in Sturgis and ours here in Rapid City.

Your pictures were great. We sometimes forget the beauty of the hills as we routinely fly over them.

Jerry

[ScottSchmidt]

Originally Posted by bldanrv9a

Thanks for the great report. I wish we had known you were going to be in the area. It would have been nice to hook up with you. We have two flying 10's in the area, one in Sturgis and ours here in Rapid City.

Your pictures were great. We sometimes forget the beauty of the hills as we routinely fly over them.

Jerry

I was going to post something before I left but ran out of time. I didn't plan on stopping in Sturgis but it was fun to see and fly over. Is that big open ramp at the airport for aircraft parking during Sturgis Bike Week? Is there usually enough room to fly in for a day or two? Any camping at the airport?

[bldanrv9a]

The big ramp you speak of was put in to hold some of the big iron that comes in that week. I don't believe camping at the airport is a problem. There was a couple of RV's that came through two years ago that camped at the airport and Jerry even loaned them a vehicle. My partner has a cabin on Terry Peak near Lead SD. that he talks of using as an RV Hotel. Lots of possibilities.

Jerry