Rimrock Lake/Tieton State Airport

I made a short trip to the Tieton State Airport on the southeast side of Mt Rainier. This is a beautiful area and I'm sorry I didn't find it sooner.

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Arial Photos

I took these photos from about 6000-7000' on my initial descent. You can see the landing strip clearly in the large versions of the 2nd and 3rd pictures. It's also visible in the 1st photo, on the top right branch of the lake.

Ground Photos

Here's a couple of shots of the runway. It slopes up quite a bit as you move away from the lake. When the water level is higher, I would bet the end of the runway slopes down into the water. (There's slight grass ramp at the very end of the runway which might be for bringing floatplanes out. Today there was a couple hundred feet from the end of the grass to the water's edge.

The runway's 2500' long and slopes into the lake. As long as you can break ground in that distance, there should be plenty of room to circle and climb out over the lake, as the 1st arial photo shows.

This is my Citabria parked on the lake end of the runway, tailed off to the side.

Walking from the runway to the water, this is the view. The water level appears to be extremely low this year. My guess is it would be an easy swim to the small island in the 4th shot.