Most beautiful places in Canada

C-150Pilot · Post by **C-150Pilot** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:43 pm

What are most beautiful scenery area you have witnessed while flying in Canada? Pictures would be awsome!

P.S Im looking for a place to fly and rent when Im done my PPL.

Keegs · Post by **Keegs** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:53 pm

Uranium City Sask is so far my top place scenic wise that I've flown out of...like a mini west coast BC....big rocks, big lake, big trees and big trout....not to mention the sand dunes across the water....

The runway has water on both ends...nothing like pulling up to land....

a certain cabin on Mickey Lake that D.C. graciously let us use was pretty wild as well...

good memories!!!!!

brokenwing · Post by **brokenwing** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:04 pm

Killarney Ontario, there is a nice little airport there, and great food in the summer. Hills there look snow covered even in the summer because they are all quartz.

rejd · Post by **rejd** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:06 pm

My favorite place to fly to is Golden B.C. from CYBW. I have also done the flight to Jasper/Hinton. Beautiful as well. Here is a link to some pics of both places.

Rej

http://www.andreaandrej.com/photogaller ... .php?cat=3

SuperDave · Post by **SuperDave** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:08 pm

Well, we're lucky enough that anywhere you'll fly in Canada will be pretty cool. Every place has it's own 'beauty', from the canadian shield in northwestern Ontario and Manitoba, the Hudson's Bay lowlands, arctic etc...it's all good
I flew a Super Cub up to Alaska with a friend, and winding through the the valleys and peeks of the Chilcootin region of BC is dope, and then up to Atlin and Whitehorse was good too! As long as the weather is in a good mood. The trip back was not quite as breath-taking do to the fact we couldn't see too much.

So it all depends on what you like. I'm mostly just familiar with BC when it comes to rentals. Most places are decent. Be sure to get a good mountain checkout if you venture this way. High Alpine Air out of Nelson is excellent, Okanagan Aviation, or whater it's called now is good too, very experienced pilots there. PM me for more info. Have fun! I don't know how to post pics, sorry.

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:20 pm

Gross morne national park will take your breath away on a sunny day or even the coast of the Avalon Penninsula is stunning....

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:28 pm

Minto Inlet by Victoria Island, by Holman NWT. In the spring you can look down through ten feet of crystal clear ice.

Ugliest: downtown Tuk right after the snow melts.

Flybabe · Post by **Flybabe** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:38 pm

One of the mines we fly into on the YT/NWT border:

They have hot springs there too - but watch out for the samsquanch!

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:28 pm

Cantung? If so, ever land going over the hill?

Over the Horn · Post by **Over the Horn** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:56 pm

Looks like Tungsten, the Nahanni water shed is definatley one of the best spots I've been along with anywere in northern B.C. and the Yukon.

Older Returning Pilot · Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:03 pm

The most beautiful places I have ever flown into our over are Jasper and Banff National Parks in the Summer the Nahanni Valley, and north of Fort McMurray towards Fort Chippewyan over the sand dunes.

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:01 pm

Flybabe,

Man I miss the mountains. Lucky you.

Phillips66 · Post by **Phillips66** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:59 pm

How do you paste a picture in here?

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:52 pm

Lake of the Hanging Glacier. Just one of the few spectacular spots I get to get distracted by during an average day of getting my job done around here in the summertime.

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:55 pm

When really, I'm supposed to be looking for this (well, actually a micro version of this):

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:03 am

Did one summer of flying in the Yukon, basically the same routes every day over the icefields of Kluane National Park, but it took about 3 months for me not to be absolutely amazed by the beauty of it all.

Almost every week presented a different look of the same area as ice melted, vegitation grew, flourished, and then went into fall. The changing of the colors below the treeline was unlike anything I had seen before-- as if somebody had spilled green, red and yellow paint all over the country side. The vegitation below looked just like a weather radar display- not "reddish" or "yellowish" colors, but pure red, pure yellow, pure green. The puddles of water on top of the glaciers were an incredible blue color-- as if someone had spilled 100LL avgas on the glacier. For a few weeks, as the surface of the glaciers started to melt, depending on the sun angle, the glaciers had a pearl-like color and finish. Flying next to and seeing the very remotely located Mt. Logan on a daily basis, which every Canadian school child is told is the highest point in Canada, was a privledge.

Fantastic memorable views and so happy I was able to experience this!

shankdown · Post by **shankdown** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:14 am

Hey, FlyBabe. Is that Macmillan Pass? It looks familiar, but its been 4 and a half years since I've been there. I was actually going to say that Mac Pass was the most beautiful places I've ever flown into. I'd love to go fly-in camping one day when I can put that kind of money into my time off. It was an amazing place, and you are lucky to be flying there consistently.

Shizzle

Anonymous1 · Post by **Anonymous1** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:25 am

All on a clear day of course in the summer (and all in the Territories)...

Nahanii Butte
Pangnirtung - Broughton Island pass low level
Nahanni west all the way to Whitehorse

My favourite - Pond Inlet north to Grise Fiord or low level along the cliffs Arctic Bay to Resolute.

BeaconInbound · Post by **BeaconInbound** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:46 am

Carl wrote:Gross morne national park will take your breath away on a sunny day or even the coast of the Avalon Penninsula is stunning....

lord tunderin' jesus...you must be from the rock...are you the carl livin' in yvc?

Switchfoot · Post by **Switchfoot** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:29 pm

Anywhere west of CYBW is beautiful. The Purcell mountains just west of CAA-8 showcase some of the most spectacular scenery I have ever seen (used to fly over Lake of The Hanging Glacier daily) as AIRTIDS has displayed. Some Hollywood movies you have watched have been filmed at those glaciers. Also some of the most treacherous terrain and winds I have flown through! But on clear and calm days, nothing can compare.

Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan have their moments. Nice sunsets and sunrises. Both from the flight levels and a few hundred AGL.

All in all, I'd say Canada has some of the most beautiful landscape in the world!

Switch.

w squared · Post by **w squared** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:19 pm

There's some great flying to be had out of CYBW, and a fair number of choices of places/types to rent. There's a lot of gorgeous country within easy striking distance - Kanaskis Country, Banff, Jasper, Golden, and over into Airtid's part of the world. The Kootenays are a great place to spend your time and money.

Flybabe · Post by **Flybabe** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:26 pm

Nope, Not Mac Pass!!!!

Donald - Cantung it is!

Bede - neener neener neener

:P

Here is a pic of the hotsprings, again at Cantung:

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:32 pm

In bed collecting welfare and watching TV.

OR

In bed collecting a 6/49 win and watching TV.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:53 pm

SuperDave wrote:...winding through the the valleys and peeks of the Chilcootin region of BC is dope, and then up ...

Dope and flying shoudn't mix, especially when flying in the mountains.

scubasteve · Post by **scubasteve** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:18 pm

hey airtids - I didnt realize you made it this far in your travels. That beautiful spot you showed everyone could someday be next to a new ski resort. As much as I love skiing, it would be a shame to develop that area. As for the movies, Alive and Ace Ventura are the only ones I know of that have been filmed here as well as a car commercial on one of the glaciers last winter.

If anyone is flying over the kootenays and is stopping in Invermere let me know