Not a ride, but is a story.
Tonedeaf and I had been emailing back and forth the last six months, we wanted to get together in both our planes (though mine is a rental for now) to hop a few mountain airports. AKA the proverbial $100 burger. He's on the Western Slope of Colorado, I'm along the Front Range, we're both pilots.
Snow or rain or bad WX on my side one week, maintenance on his plane the next, winds and scheduling conflicts for both parties... until today.
There was a pancake breakfast fly-in at the Granby airport this AM. WX looked (was) ideal to cross the Continental Divide in the summer (Density Altitude, pilots know the drill), so I loaded up a passenger in the barf-Rocket (tm) and flew across. Saw some planes on display at Granby, thought about some coffee, loaded back up and headed to Eagle CO airport (FAA identifier: EGE).
Yacked with EGE tower, landed...
"The Usual Suspects":
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It's a half a day from Longmont to either Granby or Eagle on a scooter, same for the return. In a plane (even a Barf-Rocket), it's 45 minutes to Granby from Longmont, and 50 minutes from Granby to Eagle. And seeing the mountains 'up close and personal' in a small plane is to die for
Figuratively
My public FB album from today:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1506332186262846.1073741838.100006582369746&type=1&l=f3b3251a30