Made it
Well, I made it to Walla Walla. I actually made it in by a little past noon PDT yesterday, on Wednesday. I just didn’t have any time to blog yesterday.
I ended up flying a pass that I hadn’t even considered before. A friend of mine who does a lot of Idaho backcountry flying said there was a pass to the north of Mullan Pass that is almost always VFR even when the other passes to the south are completely socked in. It was quite a ways out of my way–running all the way to Sandpoint, Idaho, but it would get me through.
I gave it a shot first thing on Wednesday morning, right before more rain moved in to the area, and it worked like a charm. Nice VFR weather the whole way.
The pass opens up to Lake Pend Oreille which is a beautiful lake in northern Idaho. I flew down it at about 800 feet off the water.
Here’s the Snake River running through the Columbia Basin in eastern Washington.
Almost home! Making a straight in approach to Runway 20 at the Walla Walla Regional Airport (KALW):
So the trip is finally complete. It totaled 33.1 flight hours. I have more stories and memories than I could ever fit in this blog–what a great time.
Make sure to keep reading this blog in the future. I’ll post more experiences as they come. Take care and fly safe!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Glad you made it safely. I’d like to see a plot of your actual route. Sounds like a great adventure. Now you have to do the whole thing again by pick-up truck