Today we're departing from Logan, Utah! We have a short day of flying planned, only 2 legs, so we let ourselves sleep in a little (until 0800!) and were off to the airport. We checked the weather and decided a straight shot to Mountain Home, Idaho was not in the cards. We had thunderstorms and a lot of convective activity going on along that route with reports of moderate turbulence. We decided to plan IFR, head south towards the Great Salt Lake and to the west of all the storms. As we were walking out to the airplane, we finally caught up with Classic 38 and got to meet them! We have since kind of adopted each other. They're racing for the first time too! After a preflight and holding short for the fire truck doing a water hose demonstration to kids running around crazy (just kidding- they were in a nice close group and we were far, far away), we were off!
The Great Salt Lake
Some rain in Idaho
Windmills!
We landed in Mountain Home, Idaho and met the FBO manager there and a pilot who builds experimental aircraft. He let us check out his hangar.
This airport didn't have a fuel truck either, so we got to self serve fuel the airplane for the first time! We had some help to pull the airplane up to the pump.
After Mountain Home we worked our way to Pasco, Washington! We passed Oregon on the way up and saw some awesome terrain.
We're so happy to be in Pasco and are excited for all of our race activities to begin!
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