We landed at Green River Airport where I fussed with my wingtip camera, then headed down the Green River Canyon. This was an incredible flight, probably the highlight of the entire trip.
We just landed at the very S/W end of the lake. VERY mountainous out here. The small ones are about 7K feet tall. Winds while we were flying were about 20mph at 7K today!!!
We landed at Pagosa, refueled and headed north up the Piedra Valley.
We flew past Williams Reservoir and approached the 12,500 ft mountains that blocked our path to Creede. It was 11am and the clouds were just starting to build.
We landed at Milford with the winds 18 knots, gusting to 23. At least it was straight in. 10 miles...needed gas and I wasn't too keen on landing at Ibex in high winds anyway, so we land...
We left Gunnison and had to climb to high to cross the mountains to reach Saguache and the San Luis Valley. If was very cold, about 30F ambient temperature. Our goal was the heated pool at Hooper, Colorado. We just hoped it would be open when we landed so we could warm up.
I used to have a lightweight wing cover for XC-- it packed into the harness easier (yep, we had to take all...ok up less space than the day to day wing cover, and would hide the HG when you land...
We landed in Wentworth in the middle of nowhere almost, and there was a WWII book about the development of the P-51 Mustang0 and there was Vance Breese (Senior) (our own Vance Breese on AllTrike's Dad) testing the P-51 inside.