We stayed the night at
the Holiday Inn Express in Golden.
Typical of these virus times they offered breakfast in a take
away paper bag...
Both our dinner and our breakfast were consumed at the White
Tooth Bistro in town.
Now we were on the home
straights so to speak.
Departing Golden at 17:22z we flew northwards to round the
mountains and into the valley to follow the highway through the
Rogers Pass.
Our objective was to fly to Salmon Arm where we landed at 18:42z
to add 46.85 litres Avgas.
Rogers Pass
The terrain is not so clear on the Sky
Demon maps, but this is so far "experimental", and Nav
Canada apparently doesn't release its charts...
I'd let Hammy know that we would be inbound and so he was there to welcome us with coffee... No biscuits, so I broke a Nature Valley Oats 'n' Honey bar into biscuit size pieces.
A good welcome at Salmon Arm.
Takeoff from Salmon Arm
was at 20:55z on the direct route over Hope and into the Lower
Mainland to land at Langley at 22:51z.
I suggested we stop be Chilliwack on the way, but the prospect of
home cooking was strong for Ted.
This was one of those important human journeys of reminiscence
that can only happen once, but which reinforce one's memories.
The total time was 24.4 hours in the air, and 28.5 hours engine start to engine stop. I'll let you calculate how much fuel we used, (I know I missed one amount).
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