Day 6 - Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho
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| Departing Coski, I headed southeast into the mountains again. The ground fog was long gone. |
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Looking down at Warm Springs Creek (0U1). This is the real deal; a bona fide Idaho mountain airstrip. I think I better attend the McCall Mountain Flying school before I try flying into something like this.
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| Continuing into the Sawtooth Mountains. |
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I've driven through the Sawtooth Mountains. Let me tell you the view is much better from the air!
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| I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. |
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| My head was on a swivel, soaking in the magnificent view. |
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| High mountain lakes. |
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| Almost through the Sawtooth Mountains and into the valley beyond. |
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Looking back.
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| Once in the big valley that runs north to south, I flew over Smiley Creek Airport (U87). I believe you can get a pretty good breakfast down there at the Smiley Creek Lodge. |
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| I flew past Friedman Memorial Airport in Sun Valley and soon I was back over the big Snake River plains. |
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What a difference a few days make. The tops of this hill were shrounded in clouds when I came through four days ago.
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| I stopped at McCarley Field Airport (U02) in Blackfoot, Idaho -- about 20 miles northeast of Pocatello -- to get gas and stretch my legs. |
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Nice friendly airport. I chatted with the airport manager in the FBO before continuing on.
I was sort of excited because now I was entering country I have never been in before: by car or by air.
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