Going Home '09

<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>  Heading back from our June trip proved to be quite a chore.  A storm system to the south forced us to detour to far western Nevada, so we just made it up as we went 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="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Big Creek 09"><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="id98.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="West Yellowstone 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> Going Home '09</div> <div> <IMG SRC="36ce8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   Low clouds around Johnson Creek delayed our usual early morning departure.  As it was, the clouds were just high enough to sneak out of the canyon through this pass.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="36ee8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    All five planes made it safe and sound to Cascade, ID, our usual gas stop before starting the trek home.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="370e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   As we detoured to the west around storms, we were surprised to see this off to the east (where we would normally be flying home).  At the center of the pic, between the base </div> <div> of the clouds and the mountain peakl, you can see a slim funnel cloud dropping down.  The funnel lasted for about five minutes then dissapated.  Believe it or not, that was not </div> <div> the first funnel cloud seen on this trip.   On day one in eastern Idaho, a funnel dropped out of a medium sized thunderstorm cell several miles off our course.  I was so surprised I </div> <div> forgot to take a picture.   Not this time!</div> <div> <IMG SRC="372e8ee0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="750" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>    Following a prolonged, unplanned stop in Jean, NV, Mark seems pretty happy to be home.   The setting sun is a dead givaway that this return trip took us about 4 hrs. longer</div> <div> than usual.   We normally arrive at around 3:00 PM.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>