For years we've wanted to check out this festival and this year the stars aligned to make it happen. I was able to make the mad dash from work and get back Friday night in time to launch Saturday morning. My neighbor and hanger buddy, along with his wife, had flown up the day before. As an added bonus, my dad also drove up from southern Idaho. Glidergeek was there from southern CA as well and it was good to catch up with him.

This was the liveliest I've seen Yellow Pine. Lots of venders selling their wares and food. Both taverns were open as well as the Silver Dollar. The music was great and watching the Master's Jam was well worth the wait through the warm afternoon. Phil and Roxy were running shuttles to and from the strip every couple of hours. Pretty cool little festival and I'm glad we made the effort to get up there despite getting rained on a little bit Sunday morning. I'd like to get up there another time, maybe sans kids, and be able to spend the whole evening since the music played until midnight. If you get the chance, I'd check this one out!

Working our way through a little weather over the Idaho desert.


Main street festivities in Yellow Pine.


Kids on stage singing kid's songs with one of the masters, Roby Kap.



Crowd watching the Master's Jam.


A small sample of the Master's Jam.


Always good to be back to Johnson Creek. 37 aircraft Saturday night.



Tyler honing his balancing skills on the runway markers.


My buddy taking off from JC in his RV-9a.

The harmonica festival is a good time, haven't been there in a few years but used to go every year for a while. Glad you guys had fun, I think the town briefly gets about 100x its normal size. Always thought it was funny that a town with a population of about 30 has two bars.

That's great, Cory! My daughter and I did the Harmonica Festival two years ago and had a great time. She especially enjoyed all the dog competitions: Cutest, Ugliest, best trick etc. I recall that for best trick, one guy had his pooch get a can of beer out of a cooler strapped on his ATV and bring it to him in a camping chair.

Nice! There were a lot of dogs there. The best I saw was this Bob Marley poodle.

Good catching up with you too Cory, Dee and the kids. Right now I'm stuck in Ely is as far as I could make it today stayed in Buhl last night left there 11 am planned stop here in Ely for fuel, ceilings from Buhl to Ely were low bases were 8500,MSL till Ely 7000' moderate rain from 15 north to landing. Never got to the springs at Warm springs started raining heavy there.

Sorry to hear you got rained out. Kind of makes me glad we decided to bug out early. Be safe and have a good flight home.