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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 16, 2008
Description:
It was fuel time for Peli and lunchtime for me. We cut the corner and left the river to head for Mountain Home.
Mountain Home? Ha! The only mountains are far in the distance.
Mountain Home is home to Gunfighters. These modern Gunfighters fly F-15 fighters. I didn’t see any as I skirted the Air Force Base.
The wind was blasting across the flat lava flow. It was a wild ride to touchdown. I thought I was done when I turned the engine off. As I stepped out of the airplane, the wind grabbed Peli and tried to push him across the ramp.
Inside the FBO I found a couple flying their C172 back to Vancouver, B.C. They had been camping at Yellowstone the night before and woke up to freezing temperature. That didn’t bother them. It was the current weather report that was not making them happy.
“I want to fly north to Walla Walla but Flight Service is reporting rain and mountain obscuration,” the pilot told me.
“I can confirm that. I had to fly through it to get here.”
“Really? If you can do it in that little plane, I should be able to get through too.”
“Sure you can. It will be exciting. Do you like to fly 100’ over rough terrain in turbulence between areas of heavy rain?”
“That would be crazy.”
“Exactly. Why not just go due west into Oregon to Klamath Falls? The weather is great and you can get a car to tour Crater Lake.”
“Yes. That’s what we’ll do,” his wife interjected. He did not argue with the aircraft commander.
I found it a bit funny that they worried about a little weather after camping next to the mega-volcano at Yellowstone. It is one of the largest and most horrifically violent volcanoes. It has a history of erupting mightily with up to 200 cubic miles of rhyolite every 600,000 years. Compare that to Mt. St. Helens measly eruption of just 1/3 of a cubic mile. The last eruption was coincidently about 600,000 years ago, so it is about time for a repeat.
A cold lunch was just across the street at the local convenience market.
Date Taken:
Sep 16, 2008
Place Taken:
Near Grand View, ID
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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329, Taking Peli Home
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