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Photos
Predawn warmup of my engine at Hooper, Colorado.- 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.
- A shot of the Carson River, in Carson City, NV near Hot Springs Mountain (left) and the snow capped Sierra Nevadas
- Paul wanted to follow the Colorado all the way to Hite, so we headed down to the confluence again and headed downstream. You can see his trike in the upper part of the photo.
- Waiting for the frost to melt off my wing at Buckhorn Airstrip, outside of Crested Butte, Colorado. The wings don't work if there is any frost on them.
- We flew north about 30 miles through a flat, empty valley to reach the San Raphael River. We followed the river downstream to reach the aptly named Little Grand Canyon.
- Carson River near Minden NV
- We landed at Mineral Canyon to look over the wings (now fros...eading out an amazing hour long flight up the Green River. I landed first and fol...pate. Here is a link to a video of the Green River run, sped up by a factor of 1...
- Takeoff over the crowded end of the field at a fly-in at Marble, Colorado.
- 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.