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Flying to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons

Personal | Posted by Jeremy@Zawodny.com
Jul 17 2009

We're heading out on a little summer vacation flying trip this morning in our Citabria. We'll be visiting Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.

Kathleen and N5156X at Half Moon Bay

We'll be flying from San Jose to Twin Falls, Idaho today. Then tomorrow we'll fly from Twin Falls to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

For those pilots or aviation buffs out there, here is our list of waypoints for both days.

Day #1

RHV - LVK (Livermore)
LVK - L53 (Lodi)
L53 - PVF (Placerville)
PVF - TVL (Lake Tahoe)
TVL - MEV (Minden)
MEV - CXP (Cason City) Rest/Fuel
CXP - LOL (Derby)
LOL - BAM (Battle Mountain) via V6 airway
BAM - EKO (Elko) Rest / Fuel
EKO - LWL (Wells)
LWL - 06U (Jackpot)
06U - TWF (Twin Falls) Rest / Fuel / Spend Night

Day #2

TWF - BYI (Burley)
BYI - U01 (American Falls)
U01 - U02 (Mc Carley)
U02 - U56 (Rigby Jefferson)
U56 - DIJ (Driggs Reed)
DIJ - JAC (Jackson Hole)

And you can see our day #1 navigation log as well as our day #1 flight plan (though we filed each of the 3 legs separately with the FAA).

Pictures and video to come! We just got a Flip camera for the trip (test video here).

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