Today I flew on the airlines from Denver back to SLO, actually still waiting for my connection flight in LA, but here are some pictures from a nice hop over the continental divide a couple days ago: The Pacer was loving that high pressure, cold air. Practically no wind up there, a beautiful day!

Had a great late afternoon flight around the local area today. Thick air, 20,000' overcast and calm winds made for some good sightseeing. Sorry about the crapy iphone pics, but its better than nothin!

Mt. Adams in the distance


Wenatchee Valley


Mission Ridge Ski Resort, where the ill faited B-24 rests:

Another spot on the west circuit

I finally dropped into this tight local canyon.
It was worth the wait.

Eagle at 3:30? Nice video.

Very nice S-12! I love that over the shoulder shot. Made me feel like I was riding along in the back seat. Also made me want to go borrow my buddy's S-7 and take it for a spin!

Was planning to head down to Page or Bullfrog since I had not been down that way yet, but it was nothing but fog . So instead, went out to learn the canyons to the west and north and dropped into Bryce for some fuel.

Cool old log hanger



Crossing "the blues"



Point Powell



Overall, a calm, beautiful day. Dropped into a couple canyons for some practice, but was a little busy for picture taking

Chris

Part 2 of an early winter flight. The flight home.

Oh man, my mouth is watering looking at that sweet single track I need to ride.
Another great video Charlie, thanks.

Rezrider wrote:Oh man, my mouth is watering looking at that sweet single track I need to ride.
Another great video Charlie, thanks.

Much of that is the Rabbit Valley / Westwater OHV area. Arguably some of the best single track in the area.
There is a ton of primo single track near Mack with many more MTB only trails than Moab.
Some of that video was over the Kokopelli trail that links Fruita/Loma to Moab. The first dirt road landing on the video was on a section of the trail.

Lulu's first Cub flight today. She settled down after about 10 minutes and enjoyed the sights.

Which one's Lulu?

A few pictures from yesterday's flight, it sure was a nice sunset.

Rob,

Terrific job capturing that sunset! Those are some beautiful pics that really highlight the colors. For the first time I have a quality camera, and I have no idea how to use it to get photos that capture color or scenes as good as this.

Brett

Thanks Bret, believe it or not those pictures were taken with my iPhone 6+. The only editing I did was click on the auto enhance button.

robw56 wrote: .....The only editing I did was click on the auto enhance button.

Does that make you look like a movie star when you take a selfie? I need one of those.....

Yesterday. Around the Muskingum River Valley. My local patch.

That sure is one handsome looking Savage.

S-12Flyer wrote:That sure is one handsome looking Savage.

Thank you sir. Not too shabby yourself.

Dont look too close! She needs a bath pretty bad.

Crzyivan13 wrote:Yesterday. Around the Muskingum River Valley. My local patch.

Nice pics!

Most are familiar with the big GM recall regarding ignition switches turning off. A major player in those incidences, and the fix, surrounds weight/moment of swinging mass attached to the keychain. Think about encountering some unexpected turbulence, what may happen to yours? I suggest possibly the key turning to off, or bumping master switch off, or...

I actually experienced, in an open air flying machine, some unexpected high g forces. The ignition switch had positive detents, there were six keys on the ring. Not only did the switch turn off but the keys came out of the switch. Gone.

Something to think about.
Mark J