Backcountry Pilot

Canadian pilot Matt Wall was tired of fighting for a spot on crowded road-access B.C. lakes. Today he's fully realized the utility of the float plane and the magic of family adventures to places few others can go.

Two pilots embark on the journey to move a Super Cub from Houston, Texas to its proper new home on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. This is the detailed travelogue with every choice and decision laid bare.

A greenhorn pilot arrives at the conclusion that he needs his own airplane, but wisely decides to conduct further research...by way of getting his float rating.

After two seasons of being limited to 12,000' during commercial sightseeing flights, Hawk Greenway wanted to fly his personal Cessna Bird Dog over the top of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. When perfect conditions arrived, he went for it.

A Colorado pilot checks off a lifelong bucket list item: Spending an entire summer in Alaska, flying for hire.

A group of friends depart from the foot of the southern Sierra in their vintage taildraggers, bound for a fly-in in Oregon, and discover one high desert gem after another along the way.

A long-time Alaskan takes some international visitors for a tour of frozen Lake George, and is reminded of the power of the airplane to expose the uninitiated to a wildly different world.

A young pilot guides a Piper Tri-Pacer to his first-ever fly-in: the annual High Sierra event in the high desert of Nevada, where memories are cemented by golden light and relentless dust.