The Way West Bruce Bream - 2007
The Route: KCGF => KBRL => KGLD => KAPA => KGUC => KLXV => KBCE => KGCN
KML file: of KAPA => KLXV check it out in 3D using Google Earth

Before the tower opens...	First storm on the horizon	Closer	Closer yet	Maybe not too bad	Fly around this
On the ground at Goodland, KS	Nasty stuff out SE of the field	Cropdusters of course	Rain during taxi out, gusts to 35kts from the south	Flying around some more	Heavy rain north of the field
Crop circles to the south	Low level scud	Looks like some downdrafts	More wind shear clouds, winds 35kts from the north	Terrain rising ot the west	Rockies are out there someplace
Finally parked at KAPA	Density Altitude!	Takeoff!	Flying south to Pikes Peak	First step up the Rockies	Air Force Academy
The crest of the Rockies	Just west of KANK	Salida Valley	Valley in the Rockies	Royal Gorge	A better view of the Royal Gorge
It was fun crossing this when I was a kid with my parents	Some great driving down there!	Looking north to the peaks	KANK below	Crossing one pass	Another high valley
Last pass	Some great cumulogranite	The valley to the west and Gunnison	Gunnison from the other side of the mesa, there is an airport out there	Amazing natural designs on these mesas	The Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Who's flying?	Oh, just stepped back in	Old cinder cone	Peaks east of Aspen	Still snow in June	More granite
Beaver Creek	Vail Airport	Red rocks	Vail mid-mountain restaurant	Heading south to Leadville	Camp Hale where the 10th Mountain Division trained for WWII
Ski Cooper	Leadville airport in the distance	KLXV is on a mesa south of town	This is it. 9927 MSL.	The airport cat	A reminder of the altitude
Pines and mountains	View from the Mineral Belt bike trail	Nice sledding hill	Saloons of course, one of the oldest in town	Dolled up houses	Murals too
The Ice Palace from 1800's	Another house you won't have trouble finding	Hardware store	Mineral belt trail	Remnants of an old mine	Ah... Aspens
Just my bike and me	Pines...	And pine frest scent	Looming storm in the distance	It liked to threaten rain in the afternoon	Downtown Leadville
A hotel lobby and cowboys	Prarie Dogs	Surprise, it rained after all and froze on my wing	LXV FBO	Took the wet frost off in shorts of course	Taxi out at LXV
14ers in the distance	Leadville streets	North pass out of Leadville to Vail	Past Ski Cooper again	Camp Hale	More granite
A sheen on the pines from the rain last night	Mountain ridge and peaks	Some weathered peaks	A green mesa	Erosoin +	Closer view
Looking back east	More mesas and valleys	Amazing mix of colors	Canyon country in Utah	Desert near Hanksville, UT	Mount Waas to the south
Remains of old volcanoes	Arches National Park	Something you don't see from the ground	There's arches in some of these photos	Canyons and arches	On fins of rock turned sideways
Arches NP	The loop at the north end of Arches	Arches NP	Arches NP	Moab-Canyonlands aiport KCNY	Arches NP
Flying south to Moab, UT	Green River valley at Moab	More canyon country	Moab and the Colorado River	That red area at the bottom is a massive uranium tailing cleanup site	Canyonlands area
Utah canyons
			KHVE - Hanksville, UT
Some incredible rifts				Capital Reef NP	Capital Reef NP
Canyons in Capital Reef			Colors changing as I head south	More reds as the terrain changes
				Escalante Muni, 1l7
The first indication that I'm near Bryce	A great formation at this pass east of KBCE	Bryce Canyon NP	Bryce Canyon NP	Bryce Canyon NP	Yes KBCE is out there
Bryce Canyon NP		Found it, all 7395 feet of it	That's a long runway, but just a couple miles from Bryce NP	Final for 21	Taxiing, on a long runway
Grand Canyon Airlines - a Cessna 206	What a grand FBO at Bryce	An airport hunting lodge	The airplane selfie	Bryce airport hangar	Lots of ramp space
Looking back at that pass a few pictures ago	Their hangar	Made in 1936 by WPA	Rustic as the west		And a few cracks in the siding for air conditioning
Nice hangar customer	Saying goodbye to Bryce
Flying south to the Grand Canyon	In the distance is the Grand Canyon	Coming up on the edge of a cliff	The crack of the Grand Canyon	The edge of the Vermillion Cliffs	Looking back at the cliffs
The northern part of the Colorado and the Grand Canyon	Vermillion Cilffs to the north behind me	My 1960s flight around the canyon
Some Videos too ...
Flying through some weather	The Royal Gorge	Gunnison, CO. Just a small mesa in the way on downwind	A mountain valley east of Aspen, CO
Landing at Leadville, KLXV	Flying south down the northern arm of the Grand Canyon at 10k ft	Biking at the rim	The Bright Angel Trail
A mock flyover of the canyon	The Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim	Hiking the start of the Bright Angle Trail