This is a picture of three of our aircraft taking off to go to Denali, Mt. McKinley to all you lower 48ers. We are conducting a HART mission, High Altitude Rescue Training, it's pretty neat unfortunately they only send the most senior guys that have longevity with the unit down to participat. I am neither so I'm back in Fairbanks still.

We had a pretty interesting past few days though. Who knew coming into my military career that I would ever have to take Volcanic Activity into consideration when designing training plans and schedules. This job never seems to surprise me. In case you haven't heard yet, Mt. Redoubt finally blew it's top on Sunday night of this week. Since then it's blown seven more times sending ash up our way. None of it has reached us yet, the mountain range helps block it, but it does effect some of our training flights. If you go to the Alaska Volcano Observatory you can see some interesting pictures.

Well I hope everyones week is going well and I can't wait to see you all again soon. Hopefully I'll get a chance soon instead of continuing these 80 hour work weeks. Yeah!