It's pictures and stories like this that keep me motivated to squeeze the remaining 8,000 rivets.  Thanks for sharing this with the list.

At 09:43 AM 11/5/2004 -0800, you wrote:

I decided I needed a bit of "flight therapy" after all that commercial flight time to FL and back, so I took a local trip yesterday around the mountains in N3773.  The TFR says 13,000', so that's where I shot this from.  the std. south climbing route takes you right up to where the ash has darkened the snow.  no one is up there now except geologists.  radio transmissions made it sound like there was a helicopter near the old dome at the time of this photo, but I can't see one.
at 13,000' I had to descend at 2,000'/min, showing 173 knots ground speed, to return to my airport 30 some miles away.  even then it took some zero G rolls to burn off excess altitude.  if it wasn't for cooling shock worries, it would be fun to try it with the engine shut down.
Kevin Lane  Portland, OR
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