Flight from Glendale, AZ, to Grand Junction, CO, over Painted Desert, Blanding/Monticello Area

Описание: This is the first of two flights back to Rapid City. I first flew from Phoenix to Grand Junction, CO, coming over the Black Canyon Preserve, Pine Mountain Preserve, Fossil Springs Wilderness Area, West Clear Creek Wilderness Area, the Painted Desert, Monument Valley, and then the very scenic Blanding/Monticello area, the impressive Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area, and finally landing in Grand Junction. Flight time 3:15. As you can see the gusts were a little spritely with me.

Here are the flight maps:

Simple Map:
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GPS Map:
https://s3-tracks-notebooks.s3.us-wes...

Topo Map:
https://s3-tracks-notebooks.s3.us-wes...

Timestamps:
1:51 New River
3:03 101
5:34 Arrowhead Mall, top left
6:53 101
7:07 Arrowhead Lakes
7:37 Arrowhead Mountain Preserve
11:05 TSMC chip factory
14:12 Anthem
18:33 Here it begins to get tall
19:15 Big Spring
41:03 Fossil Springs Wilderness Area
45:55 West Clear Creek Wilderness Area
1:03:11 High 40, historic US Route 66, Two Guns Pool, Andersen Canyon, Canyon Diabolo Bridge, Apache Death Cave, Louise Cundiff's Tower Station. Are there way more trucks than cars on the highway?
1:03:45 Wagon Box Draw, top right corner
1:04:08 Canyon Diabolo Road
1:05:15 Canyon Diabolo Railroad Bridge, Herman Wolf Grave
1:06:37 Yellow Jacket Canyon, to the right
1:09:16 Leupp Road, Leupp, top right corner
1:10:30 Little Colorado River
1:18:41 Monument Point, Kachina Points
1:22:42 Road 58
1:12:54 Blue Point
1:27:33 Road 13
1:28:48 Orabi Butte
1:30:22 Hotevilla-Bacavi, Road 264
1:34:48 Rocky Ridge Boarding School, Road 62, Road 6671
1:48:23 some mining area, White House Valley
1:52:10 Black Mesa Mountains
1:54:45 Road 59, hitting road 160
1:57:27 Church Rock Valley
1:58:52 Laguna Creek
1:59:33 Baby Rocks, top right
2:02:29 the Southern end of Monument Valley
2:05:29 Maze Canyon, Invisible Arch, both at the right side, Cane Valley, top right
2:11:07 San Juan River, top left
2:12:43 Chinle Creek, San Juan River, Brayden's Butte, top left
2:14:25 Snake River, road 163
2:15:07 Wolf Panel Petroglyphs
2:22:38 Energy Fuels Resources, road 191
2:23:46 Blanding Airport
2:24:52 Blanding
2:26:45 Recapture Reservoir, US Highway 191
2:41:25 Lisbon Valley Mining, Lisbon Valley Road
2:44:18 Island Canyon, Moosey Canyon, state border UT/CO
2:47:23 Sharp Canyon, Lion Gulch, road 90
2:47:51 Spring Creek
2:48:44 Paradox Ranches, Redd Ranches, Paradox Pipeline, Explorer's Paradox
2:49:27 is that a great mountain wall?
2:50:44 Roc Creek, Sinbad Ridge, top left
2:52:39 Road 141, Dolores River
2:59:09 now comes some seriously high terrain, part of the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area
3:09:40 Gunnison River
3:10:08 Grand Junction coming in
3:10:37 Colorado River
3:11:47 Road 6, Grand Army of the Republic Highway
3:12:36 interstate 70