Leg 242, Grand Canyon North Entrance, Arizona via Nevada to South Lake Tahoe, California, USA
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The mighty Grand Canyon. She looks pretty good in game as long as you don’t get too close. Same for Las Vegas and Yosemite. This leg is more retracing my steps from 21 years ago, all very recognizable.
04-20 Grand Canyon Airport KGRM 4:21 PM
04-20 Grand Canyon National Park KGCN 4:34 PM
04-20 Tuweep L50 5:18 PM
04-20 Grand Canyon Bar Ten Airstrip 1Z1 5:25 PM
04-20 Grand Canyon West 1G4 5:42 PM
04-20 Pearce Ferry L25 5:52 PM
04-20 Temple Bar U30 6:01 PM
04-20 Hoover Dam Bridge 36°0’45"N, 114°44’29"W 6:17 PM
04-20 Boulder City KBVU 6:23 PM
04-20 Henderson Executive KHND 6:31 PM
04-20 Mc Carran Intl KLAS 6:37 PM Las Vegas PG Area
04-20 Fremont Street 36°10’14"N, 115°8’37"W 7:06 PM
04-20 North Las Vegas KVGT 7:15 PM
04-20 Indian Springs AF Aux KINS 7:31 PM
04-20 Desert Rock NV65 7:38 PM
04-20 ■■■■■■■ U75 7:48 PM
04-20 Stove Pipe Wells L09 8:01 PM Death Valley 36°36’53.7"N 117°06’47.4"W
04-20 Chicken Strip KLOO 8:18 PM
04-20 Bishop KBIH 8:35 PM
04-20 Mammoth Yosemite KMMH 8:48 PM
04-20 Lee Vining O24 8:58 PM Mono Lake 37°59’51.1"N 119°02’17.6"W
Yosemite Black Bears 37°54’15"N, 119°15’27"W Not home
Half Dome 37°44’41"N, 119°32’5"W
Yosemite El Capitan 37°43’58"N, 119°38’11"W
04-20 Mariposa-Yosemite KMPI 9:37 PM
04-20 Modesto City-Co-Harry Sham Fld KMOD 9:55 PM PG Area
Manteca 37°47’17"N, 121°13’59"W PG Area
04-20 Stockton Metropolitan KSCK 10:10 PM PG Area
04-20 Lodi 1O3 10:24 PM PG Area
04-20 Sacramento Executive KSAC 10:32 PM PG Area
04-20 Yolo County KDWA 10:45 PM PG Area
04-20 Sacramento Intl KSMF 10:51 PM PG Area
04-20 Swansboro Country 01CL 11:08 PM Bad Stuttering, memory increasing
04-20 Lake Tahoe KTVL 11:27 PM Memory back down
Flight time 7:06 29 stops
Approaching the Grand Canyon from the North Entrance
Flying out over her along Buddha Temple
Point Sublime visible in the other direction
Grand Canyon Village along the South Rim
Angels window in the distance
South Rim Trail
Two shots from my trip back in 2000
Making a quick stop at Grand Canyon National Park Airport
Back to the canyon to explore down below, descending along Plateau Point
View from Plateau Point
Down to the Colorado River
Looks pretty rough down there, heading back up at Salt Creek
Monadnock Amphitheater
Garnet Canyon
Great Thumb Point
Kanab Canyon
Stopping by Tuweep Airport down below
Tuweep Airport in Broad Canyon
Aeroportul Grand Canyon Bar 10 / Webbs Ranch Landing Strip
Iverson Tank below, tiny dried up lake
Grand Canyon West
Where the Grand Canyon Skywalk is
Located at Eagle Point
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Coming up on the Hoover Dam
Terrain quality is really bad here, hence not much of the dam in the picture
Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on the other side
I had to land on it of course, very busy bridge
Boulder City Municipal Airport
Seven Hills, a master-planned community approximately 7 miles from the Las Vegas Strip
McCarran International Airport
Flying along the Las Vegas Strip starting at the Mandalay Bay
Luxor Hotel and Casino
MGM Grand
Bellagio with the awesome fountains and Paris
Water conservation not all that high on the list there, the funtains consume about 12 million gallons of water a year and cost between 300K and 400K per month to operate.
Bellagio Fountain combined with Tiesto
Treasure Island where a pirate ship sunk in the Sirens of Ti free show (show stopped end 2013)
In front the Mirage Volcano, still erupting fire but less frequently nowadays
Sirens of Treasure Island
Mirage Volcano
Circus Circus Hotel and Casino which includes the largest permanent circus in the world
My favorite Las Vegas movie has great scenes there, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
The STRAT Hotel with some daring thrill rides at the top
Freemont Street with the world’s largest video screen build overtop
Makes for a decent runway as well!
Viva Vision Imagine Dragons at Freemont Street
Nearby is or rather was the Star Trek Experience in the Las Vegas Hilton. It wasn’t that big yet in 2000 but well made. It got a major renovation in 2004 which added the Borg invasion 4D-attraction but then it closed in 2008 and never re-opened (lost the license)
Now to get back in the air was pretty tricky
Avoid the building across the street
Made it, climbing out of El Cortez Hotel and Casino
North Las Vegas Airport
Indian Springs Air Force Base
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Desert Rock Airport
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Amargosa Valley
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Death Valley with the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
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Tbh it was a bit underwhelming in person, same in the air. It was really hot there though.
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Cottonwood Marble Canyon
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Grandstand Nature Preserve
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Waucoba Mountain (11,128ft)
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Bishop located near the northern end of the Owens Valley
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Bad form stopping in the intersection
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Aspen Springs on Lake Crowley
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Mono Lake, an ancient saline soda lake located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada
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Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin
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Flying over Mount Dana (13,061ft)
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Into Yosemite National Park
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Half Dome (8,839ft)
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A granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley
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El Capitan (7,569ft) located on the north side of Yosemite Valley
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Popular objective for rock climbers, and featured in the opening of Star Trek V Mariposa-Yosemite Airport Modesto City-Co-Harry Sham Fld behind Modesto Air Products & Chemicals Inc Modesto, largest city of Stanislaus County, California Salida along the Golden State Hwy 99 Manteca further on the way to Stockton Stockton on the San Joaquin River, in California’s Central Valley Banner Island Ballpark and Stockton Arena at McLeod Lake Lodi in the center portion of California’s Central Valley Landing at Sacramento Executive Airport Sacramento, the capital of California (I always thought it was San Francisco) Golden 1 Center before the new Arena was build (construction began end 2014) California State Capitol and Court of Appeal on the left Sacramento Tower Bridge of the Sacramento River Sacramento International Airport Flying by McClellan Airport and the smaller Rio Linda Airport Folsom in front of Folsom Lake, home to Folsom State Prison Folsom Prison Blues Flying over Dark Canyon, well named Following Silver Creek up towards Lake Tahoe Lincoln Valley Reservoir Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada Final stop today at Lake Tahoe Airport More of California tomorrow. There are close to 60 PG areas in California. It feels like half the game content is in the USA and 25% of that is in California. I’ll be heading a bit north first then along the coast to San Francisco.
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Pretty consistent, all the NA PG data seems to be from 2014
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Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state’s second-oldest prison after San Quentin
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