Sulphur Creek '10

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="043c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B>  Our first visit to Sulphur Creek this year almost didn't happen due to sketchy weather. Mark and Mel got weathered in at Moose Creek the day before, so   Doug, my brother Flavio and I decided to give it a shot.</B></div> <div> <B>    As we warmed up the planes,Tom,  our airport neighbor from Chandler,  landed at Johson Creek with his family and we persuaded him to come along.  </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#0066CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>John Galban's Flying Site</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF99" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>  |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="John Galbans Flying Site"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="16"><B>     </B><A HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Elk City 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="04910100.gif" border=0 width="16" height="16" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>     </B><A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Johnson Creek 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="04a10100.gif" border=0 width="16" height="16" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="John Galbans Flying Site"><U><B><IMG SRC="04b100e0.gif" border=0 width="16" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> Sulphur Creek '10</div> <div> <IMG SRC="3dfe8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    The morning after an overnight rain (with some snow on the ridges) and clouds were forming in the canyon to the south of Johnson Creek.  The direction we wanted to go. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e1e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    Breakfast was waiting somewhere down there.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e3e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   We found a hole in the clouds and sprialed down into the valley.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e4e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    Turning  onto a long final.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e5e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    I can almost smell the hash browns and sausage from here.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e6e86e0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="878" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   Tom brings up the rear in his Bonanza on short final.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="41de8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   You can almost see the grins from here.  This morning was Tom's first venture into the Idaho backcountry. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e8e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    The horses are trying to figure out what Doug has in mind.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e9e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    The cookhouse at Sulphur Creek Ranch is full of old, cool stuff.  They have a huge 8-track tape collection.   This is me pretending to play the "Shoot the Bear" game.  It's </div> <div> a 1950 arcade game.  Unfortunately, it's not working but there are hopes that it will be revived.    If you want to see this game in action, I found a You-Tube link here :</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCko28VS4FU" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCko28VS4"><U>Shoot the Bear</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>