Idahomike wrote:4 days of steady rain and snow above 7000 here in Cascade. Should put a hurt on the highline and ibex fires which were plaguing the middle fork with smoke. Heading back in tomorrow as weather looking much improved. .... I'll try to report. Might stop in at Sulphur.

Bring a coat and a pre-heater! Snow level in the Bitterroot is 5,500, and by Friday it'll be freezing down to around 3,500 overnight. Sure is nice to see some weather after that smoked-in summer.

I see snow on the rising terrain right behind my place, snow just a couple hundred yards away! Downhill, it's just a cold drizzly rain. A great day NOT to be camped out in a wet tent at a socked in back country airstrip, just saying, nothing like a real roof and walls on some days. But, I still have a few camp outs I hope to be able to make yet, I like these early cold snaps as it makes you realize "it" is coming, so you best make the most of the remaining good flying days.