The first order of business was to check in with range rider Tim, I had met him last year while putting a solar water pump system in nearby, and when I found he and his wife summered over in the range cabin I told him I would stop by some time. I landed in the clearing to the right of the road, the road was an option but had some pretty tall fence posts along side, so I opted for the safer looking field.
The landing was uneventful, and as I rolled out I saw what I thought were some cat tails sticking up ahead, and rather then slowly roll through them a slight tap on the brakes got me stopped right before what turned out to be a row of steel fence posts, sans barb wire. 
My bad in not seeing them earlier, and a good reminder to be suspicious of the good looking landing areas. 
This cabin is solar powered, and with the full concrete foundation, real solid, unlike most cowboy abodes I've seen. While really out in the boonies, Tim has a good strong internet connect from a nearby mt. peak and will be probably viewing this post after I email him a link. He had of course the required number of cow dogs, looked like 3 to 6 of them, and they know their jobs, which is mostly riding on the back of the 4 wheeler.
Then I had to cross a ridge line into the next valley over and head over to a construction site that I was doing the crane work on, I needed to check in with the contractor as to when my services would be needed next so I could plan my work week. I got to hit a couple of new landing sites
on the way:
After the hill side landing where the plane isn't pictured, I noticed a big gaggle of turkey buzzards hugging the sun lite ridge line working the lift, so I went over and played around with them a bit, circling the same way as they were as good soaring rules dictate, throttled way back and going about 35 mph. They let me get pretty close a few times, like 20' or so. Then it was on to the job site. I of course already had the landing area figured out, sitting in the crane on a jobsite one way I pass the time is look for landing spots, so doubly rewarding to actually land there a few days later 
By now it is was getting real warm, maybe low 90's, so after a quick stop at a crop dusting strip to say howdy to pilot Dave I headed home. On the way back I got this shot of the state run pool at Lava Hot Springs, a few years ago they expanded the slide operation to that big structure across the road. It is very visible from the nearby Hwy. 30, and I can just imagine some poor guy with a car load of kids thinking he could drive by without stopping, good luck on that! A great job of marketing by the pool people!
