I took the day off Friday to go to breakfast with one of the builders I work for. The Dad and Son team of home building are avid aviation people. Dad owned the plane but his son flew into McCall. He is an A-10 pilot who has served 2 combat tours in Afganistan and 1 combat tour in Iraq. I felt quite safe with him at the contols! I flew co-pilot seat. Our plans were to drop off the son and his boy in McCall and then fly into Stanley for breakfast with just Don and me, but weather did not permit that. A front was moving in and the clouds were lowering. The sky was angry that day. 
We had to cross several mountain ranges just to get to McCall and a trip to Stanley would take us over the sawtooth range. It was ugly over that way. You do not fly a small plane into thunderheads.
In this pict we were just coming over an 8000 foot mountain range with the ceiling at 9000. Below is Cascade lake with a little sun breaking through.
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This is Payette lake as we are turning to approach the air field. I was telling the pilot that it must be nice to be that low and not taking ground fire.
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We had breakfast and watched the weather get a little better for the return trip with just Don and me. The wind had picked up and the clouds were a little higher, but it was rough as a cob.
We were picking our way through the mountains where the snow was still hanging on.
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You can see a lookout tower in this picture. Just below that tower I have shot 6 elk over the years. Note the black clouds.
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We made it back safe and sound to the Emmett Airport and golf links, fish gutted and driveline repair. I had been in contact with Elson before takeoff and he wanted some picts of Don's plane. Don built this thing himself. He has built a lot of planes and sold them. This is a RV-10. It has 290 hp and is very fast. It is a nice ride.
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I will post some more picts later. I am sorting through the ones that are not blurred by the rough ride. I took several that turned out to be of the ceiling of the aircraft because of the roller coaster ride. HH DC
We had to cross several mountain ranges just to get to McCall and a trip to Stanley would take us over the sawtooth range. It was ugly over that way. You do not fly a small plane into thunderheads.In this pict we were just coming over an 8000 foot mountain range with the ceiling at 9000. Below is Cascade lake with a little sun breaking through.
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This is Payette lake as we are turning to approach the air field. I was telling the pilot that it must be nice to be that low and not taking ground fire.
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We had breakfast and watched the weather get a little better for the return trip with just Don and me. The wind had picked up and the clouds were a little higher, but it was rough as a cob.
We were picking our way through the mountains where the snow was still hanging on.
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You can see a lookout tower in this picture. Just below that tower I have shot 6 elk over the years. Note the black clouds.
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We made it back safe and sound to the Emmett Airport and golf links, fish gutted and driveline repair. I had been in contact with Elson before takeoff and he wanted some picts of Don's plane. Don built this thing himself. He has built a lot of planes and sold them. This is a RV-10. It has 290 hp and is very fast. It is a nice ride.
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I will post some more picts later. I am sorting through the ones that are not blurred by the rough ride. I took several that turned out to be of the ceiling of the aircraft because of the roller coaster ride.
HH DC