{"id":218,"date":"2009-04-10T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:33:15","slug":"october-2008-colorado-springs-trip-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/2009\/04\/10\/october-2008-colorado-springs-trip-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2008 Colorado Springs Trip, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 23,24 2008 Flight up the Red River valley from Jackson, MS to Monroe LA to Witchita Falls, Texas, <br \/>Tucumcara NM, Colorado Springs CO<br \/>And return October 25,26 down the Arkansas River from Colorado Springs, CO along a route through Dodge City <br \/>Kansas, Fort Smith AR, Little Rock, Greenville, MS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ColoradoSpringsTrip-001.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ColoradoSpringsTrip-001-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323178019115969618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1 Started out flying about an hour and a half in whiteout IFR conditions from Jackson, Hawkins <br \/>Field westward to Monroe, LA. This picture is taken at 10\/23 3000\u2019 about 1:30pm after breaking out<br \/> on the other side of the  front. 32 deg.30 min. latitude 92 deg. 20 min. longitude. There were still some <br \/>rainshowers after this (see figure 2) to fly through but you could see for at least 10 miles through them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-002.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-002-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323178292184566194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 2   33 deg. 30 min. latitude, 92 deg. 30 min. longitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-003.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-003-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323178603895446674\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 3  Picture taken at 4500\u2019 looking down into the Red River just west of Wichita Falls, TX. 34 deg.<br \/> 30 min. latitude 100 deg. longitude<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-007.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-007-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323153041504303346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 4 View of the Red River valley from 6500\u2019 along route from Wichita Falls, TX  to Tucumcari NM<br \/>34 deg. 40 min. latitude, 101 deg. 50 min. longitude 10\/24\/2008<br \/>Photo 7<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-008.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-008-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323153273500462162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 5  6500\u2019 same route as last<br \/> photo 8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-009.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-009-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323153557478014466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 6 Coming up the river valley to the top of the plateau southeast of Amarillo that leds to <br \/>Tucumcari. photo 9<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-010.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-010-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323153756611935810\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 7 8500\u2019 altitude 35 deg. 20 min. latitude, 103 deg. 40 min. longitude approaching Tucumcari, NM photo 10<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-011.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-011-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323153938055199426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 8 photo from 10,500\u2019 altitude along route from Tucumcari, NM to a higher land plateau at <br \/>Las Vegas CO  photo 11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-012.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-012-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323154120827265490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 9 10,500\u2019 altitude further along same route as previous<br \/> photo 12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-013.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-013-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323154287121645282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Figure 10 10,500\u2019 nearing Las Vegas CO, Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the background. photo 13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-015.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-015-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323179378745217362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 11 Town of Las Vegas CO from 11,500\u2019 altitude.<br \/>Photo 15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-018.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-018-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323154676509588210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 12 photo from 11,500\u2019 , 36 deg, 20 min. latitude 105 deg. 15 min. longitude along route from <br \/>Las Vegas CO to Cimmaron CO. Twin peaks of the  Sangre de Cristo mountain range and the Philmont<br \/> Eagle scout ranch in the background.<br \/>The twin peaks are Eagle Nest Peak at 13,161\u2019 and another at 12,441\u2019 10\/24\/2008.<br \/>Photo 18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-020.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/DColoradoSpringsTrip-020-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323155964443248338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 13 Further north along the route from Cimarron to Colorado Springs (the twins peaks from <br \/>The previous photo are on the left. Photo is again taken from 11,500\u2019<br \/>Photo 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23,24 2008 Flight up the Red River valley from Jackson, MS to Monroe LA to Witchita Falls, Texas, Tucumcara NM, Colorado Springs COAnd return October 25,26 down the Arkansas River from Colorado Springs, CO along a route through Dodge City Kansas, Fort Smith AR, Little Rock, Greenville, MS Figure 1 Started out flying about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/2009\/04\/10\/october-2008-colorado-springs-trip-part-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October 2008 Colorado Springs Trip, Part I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}