ScottSchmidt
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My wife and I have wanted for many years to go out to our friend?s ranch in South Dakota for what I now call the annual "Branding and Beer Fest". There was drinking, swearing and spitting and the men were even worse at times. With the RV-10 we could now cut the 10-12 hour drive from Salt Lake City down to 2 hours and 50 minutes. The town we headed for was Bison, South Dakota. Population was around 400 (I think). This year there were 6 High School graduates according to the local Sunday paper. Our friends Danny and Kelly are both from Bison but live in Salt Lake now. My wife works with Kelly and I've worked with Danny for 8 years. We have been great friends for many years and we were finally going to see their hometown.
We packed our clothes early Saturday morning and headed for the airport around 7:30am. We were in the air about 15 minutes after 8am climbing up over the mountains with the Chelton's flight plan going from KBTF to Devil's Tower, then Danny's family ranch, then Kelly's, and finally 6V5(Bison, SD). The flight over had a little rain that flight service didn't tell me about but it was nothing major. Once we were about 1/4 the way across Wyoming the skies went clear. We were averaging 210mph with a tail wind making great time. Wyoming really is a nice state with great mountains. As we approached Gillette WY, there were open pit coal mines everywhere then the country started to rise and it became very green around Devils Tower. About 20 miles before Devils Tower a nice layer of clouds set in over the ground at 1000 ft agl. This was northeastern WY. and it was beautiful and green.
We packed our clothes early Saturday morning and headed for the airport around 7:30am. We were in the air about 15 minutes after 8am climbing up over the mountains with the Chelton's flight plan going from KBTF to Devil's Tower, then Danny's family ranch, then Kelly's, and finally 6V5(Bison, SD). The flight over had a little rain that flight service didn't tell me about but it was nothing major. Once we were about 1/4 the way across Wyoming the skies went clear. We were averaging 210mph with a tail wind making great time. Wyoming really is a nice state with great mountains. As we approached Gillette WY, there were open pit coal mines everywhere then the country started to rise and it became very green around Devils Tower. About 20 miles before Devils Tower a nice layer of clouds set in over the ground at 1000 ft agl. This was northeastern WY. and it was beautiful and green.
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