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We winds picked up to about 35 out of the southwest, directly across our path from the right side. I was very bumpy when we made our way through the gap in the mountains east of Royal Arch. I admired Shiprock from 10 miles away, the dropped down low over the desert and ...Tags: jeff_trike jeffsflightlog xc
- We head east retracing our route from Friday. Paul missed Royal Arch on the way out last Friday, so I took him by it this morning. I don’t think I got this close, I just zoomed in with the telephoto on my camera instead. This arch is definitely calling to me.
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- We were 30 miles downwind from the summit of Mt Taylor, but didn’t feel too much turbulence. We had thought we would land at Double Eagle and top off our gas tanks, but we both had plenty of fuel. So we decided to do the return flight non-stop from Nokai Dome to Belen in one ...
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- I headed north to check out Penasco Blanco, a large ruin still buried in the desert sand.
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- I flew right past the tops of these buttes (next page).
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- We headed east and soon were approaching Monument Valley. The winds were lighter this morning compared to our visit 3 days ago on Friday afternoon. I have flown here many times, and visited it on the ground twice this year and never grow tired of it.
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- We continued down the Rio Puerco Valley to Belen. We landed around noon and the winds were still light at 8mph, but they would pick up later before we left the hangar. This ended up being my longest non-stop flight ever at 5.3 hours. My old record was a roun...
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- We continued on to the edge of the Mt Taylor Plateau. We stayed high to stay clear of the winds rotoring off the summit our right side.
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- In Chaco Canyon itself I looked down on the sprawling ruins of Pueblo Bonito.
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