On Friday afternoons in summer, Lake Hood swarms with outbound aircraft, both floated and wheeled, heading for cabins and ponds and gravel spits in the Alaskan bush ... but not at landing in ...

Mountains, water, airplanes: Three essentials of Alaskan scenery are found ... I got hooked on bush flying.” He honed his skills not by landing on skis on treacherous glaciers or taking off ...