Leg 243, South Lake Tahoe, California via Oregon to Santa Rosa, California, USA
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A loop through Oregon, pretty quiet state with some nice vistas.
04-21 Lake Tahoe KTVL 4:01 PM Grass Lake - Black Bears 38°47’41"N, 119°58’27"W
04-21 Minden-Tahoe KMEV 4:12 PM
04-21 Carson KCXP 4:19 PM PG Area Lake Tahoe - Seagulls 39°14’21"N, 120°3’28"W
04-21 Truckee-Tahoe KTRK 4:34 PM Seagull marker disappears when getting within 3nm
04-21 Reno/Tahoe Intl KRNO 4:51 PM PG Area
04-21 Reno/Stead KRTS 4:59 PM
04-21 Bodad Airstrip CA11 5:11 PM Bodad - Black Bears 40°4’1"N, 120°15’29"W
04-21 Herlong H37 5:19 PM
04-21 Empire 18NV 5:37 PM Fly Geyser 40°51’33"N, 119°19’57"W
04-21 Sulfur NV41 5:55 PM
04-21 Winnemucca Muni KWMC 6:12 PM
04-21 Battle Mountain KBAM 6:29 PM
Betze-post pit (Nevada) 40°58’29.5"N 116°21’18.8"W
04-21 Stevens-Crosby 08U 6:58 PM
04-21 Elko KELF 7:01 PM
04-21 Elko KELG 7:06 PM
04-21 Owyhee 10U 7:13 PM
04-21 J-Lazy-M Ranch ID04 7:32 PM
04-21 Rome Service Airport 0OR6 7:44 PM
04-21 Roaring Springs Ranch OR10 8:07 PM
04-21 Lake Co KLKV 8:30 PM
04-21 Tulelake Mun O81 8:46 PM Lava Beds National Monument 41°46’29.7"N 121°30’24.2"W
04-21 Longbell Ranch 2CL3 9:00 PM
04-21 Dunsmuir Muni-Mott 1O6 9:12 PM
04-21 Tews Field CA53 Redding 9:30 PM PG Area Bump in runway
04-21 Redding Muni KRDD 9:39 PM
04-21 Chico Muni KCIC 10:01 PM PG Area
04-21 Paradise Skypark CA92 10:12 PM Orville Dam 39°32’4.01"N, 121°29’11"W buggy lake
04-21 Oroville Mun KOVE 10:21 PM
04-21 Sutter County O52 10:32 PM PG Area
04-21 Yuba County KMYV 10:34 PM
04-21 Colusa Co O08 10:43 PM
04-21 Antelope Valley Ranch 4CL3 10:52 PM
04-21 Ukiah Muni KUKI 11:07 PM Bad Stuttering, might be the night lighting
04-21 Boonville D83 11:13 PM Memory increading, bad fps, reduce terrain to 10
04-21 Lofty Redwoods 53CL 11:21 PM
04-21 Ocean Ridge E55 11:25 PM Memory recovered, smooth again, terrain back to 100
04-21 The Sea Ranch CA51 11:29 PM
04-21 Charles M Schulz-Sonoma Coun KSTS 11:44 PM
Flight time 7:43 37 stops
Departure from Lake Tahoe
First a little backtracking to visit the bears at Grass Lake
Then to Minden-Tahoe Airport east of Lake Tahoe
Carson City, the capital of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson
Carson Nugget and the Nevada State Museum
The well hidden Nevada State Capitol (left) and Supreme Court of Nevada (middle)
Incline Village at Lake Tahoe
Reno, known as “The Biggest Little City in the World”
Also known for its casinos, here the El Dorado, Silver Legacy and Circus Circus Reno
Greater Nevada Field, home of the Reno Aces
Flying over Upper Long Valley
Plumas County
Bodad Airstrip
More black bears here in a pretty little valley
Pyramid Lake in Paiute Reservation
Flying towards Gerlach, Kumiva Peak (8,237ft) to the right
Pershing County, Nevada
Dry Lake Bed at the Black Rock Desert where the annual Burning Man festival is held
Fly Geyser Nature Preserve
Also known as Fly Ranch Geyser, a small geothermal geyser
Hycroft Mine, mining Gold and Silver deposits
Humboldt County, Nevada
Flying by Sonoma Peak (9,396ft)
Further over Humboldt County
Buffalo Mountain (8,206ft)
Eureka County
Gold Strike Complex with Betze-Post Open Pit and Meikle and Rodeo underground mines
Unfortunately the pit has no height data, filled in fs2020
Owyhee River at Holdup Canyon
Deep Creek
Little Thomas Creek
Skull Creek
Mickey Hot Springs
Steens Mountain (9,733ft)
Steens Mountain Wilderness
Crump Lake ahead
Lake County Airport
Landing at Tulelake Municipal Airport
Lava Beds National Monument
Desert wilderness park with volcanic features, 700+ caves and Native American rock art
Longbell Ranch
Mount Shasta (14,180ft)
Potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California
Turning to land at Dunsmuir Municipal-Mott Airport
Located along I-5 in Siskiyou County
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Castle Crags State Park
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Shasta Lake
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Created by Shasta Dam, 602f high, curved gravity dam
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Shasta Lake (city) formerly known as Central Valley or CV
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Redding on the Sacramento River, Sundial Bridge below
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Redding, northern California
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California State University, Chico
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Landing at Paradise Skypark
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Oroville Dam, 770-foot-tall artificial embankment on Lake Oroville considered the tallest in the U.S.
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Yuba City on the Feather River
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Sutter County Airport
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Caldwell Hills
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Colusa County Airport
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Sunset over Colusa County
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Blue Lakes at The Narrows
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Ukiah, largest city of Mendocino County, California
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Boonville, getting close to the Pacific Ocean
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Ocean Ridge Airport
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Green Cove Harbor Seal Rookery
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Where seals hang out on the rocks
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Approaching Windsor in Sonoma County
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Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport
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Part of Santa Rosa, California
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Final stop today, not far from San Francisco
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Next leg, exploring San Francisco and San Jose.