Easting to the Mountain
Every day is a new adventure.
Chandler, Az to E77, DMN, El Paso, then planned fuel stop at Wink, Texas. Climb to 7500ft.
Climb to 9500 for terrain. Probably cooler, smoother and have more terrain ahead so go ahead and climb to 11500ft.
Fly a little south to avoid MOA?s. Then back on course to DMN.
Notice we have a 25 knot tailwind! Yay!
54 mins after take off and we?re in New Mexico!
We don?t really want to go as far south as El Paso, so put in waypoint for intersection WHOLE, which is east of intersection waypoint MOLEY.
Guadalupe National Park
There?s a line of clouds at our altitude north of El Paso, so climb to 13,500ft.
Pass Guadalupe National Park whose spires always feel like the gateway to the west - or in this case, leaving the west. Then its downhill to Wink, Texas at 300ft/min.
Lunch stop at Wink - the less glamorous side of airplane travel
Captured a photo of one of the Wink Sinks - a place where the earth has collapsed into a crater because water from fracking dissolved salt pockets. This one is about the size of 3 football fields.
Today, onward to Petit Jean
P.S. This post is a day late. Catching up due to fun time visiting in Round Rock, Texas.