2005 Pictures Dave Biddle

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2005

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online picture notes.

Pictures Below, or Kodak Gallery view pictures here:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=7lppyzv.23o9757b&Uy=-btn6jm&Ux=0

2005 started with a New Years day flight up to Bullhead City Arizona with 5 other planes from the Phoenix area. We took a shuttle across the Colorado river to Laughlin, Nevada

http://www.visitlaughlin.com

for brunch. On the way home we stopped for fuel at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, home of the London Bridge

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/stories/lkhav.html

On March 12^th, I got up early, and flew to Springerville Arizona.

Richard, who has a second home in nearby Greer met me at the airport and we made the short drive to Sunrise Park ski area for a full day of skiing. The first time skiing in about 18 years.

http://www.sunriseskipark.com/small_map.html

The following weekend I hiked up Picketpost Mountain, south of Superior Arizona.

http://www.worldssmallestmuseum.com/picketpost.htm

and 3 days later, experienced white water rafting down the upper Salt River.

http://www.inaraft.com/salt-river-rafting-fullday.htm

April 3^rd, a hike in the Superstition Mountains to Reavis Falls, which turned out to be a hike with more distance and vertical than expected.

http://www.toddshikingguide.com/Hikes/Arizona/Tonto/Superstition8.htm

The following weekend, back to the Superstitions for a scenic hike up LaBarge canyon, over the hill and return up Boulder Canyon.

http://www.swcp.com/~spsvs/outdoors/Superstitions/superstitions.html

http://www.sportsfun.com/azhikinggallery/galleryintro.asp?galleryid=labargecanyon_012305

http://www.2az.us/hike-boulder.html

http://www.2az.us/hike-sup-trails.html#anchor-5

The annual River Run in Laughlin Nevada provided a good flying destination.

http://www.hotbikeweb.com/events/0404hb_riverrun/

http://www.laughlinriverrun.com/gallery.html

http://www.dixiebiker.com/vegaslau.html

On May 8^th, a flight to Sedona and short drive to hike Wilson Mountain.

http://www.deborah.ws/homepage/america/WilsonMountain_20050313/

The following weekend, the Grand Canyon hike - year two.

http://www.nps.gov/grca/grandcanyon/dayhike/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/grca/grandcanyon/dayhike/hs_s_kaibab.htm

http://www.nps.gov/grca/grandcanyon/dayhike/hs_ba.htm

On June 11^th an escape from the heat to Mount Wrightson, south of Tucson, followed by a feast at Zacharys Pizza in Tucson

http://www.summitpost.org/show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/1364

June 25^th another flight to Valle Arizona

http://www.valleairport.com/

On July 2^nd at 6:15 am I took off for Kalispell, Montana, with a fuel stop in Preston Idaho and landing before noon at Kalispell. By 2 pm we were hiking through snow to Hidden Lake on the Continental Divide at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park.

http://www.glacier.national-park.com/map.htm

http://www.glacierparkphotos.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=lakes.html

http://www.glacierparkphotos.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=panoramas.html&category=yes&cart_id=1283272_62026&page_from=lakes.html

July3 was a 10 mile hike to Iceberg Lake from Many Glacier and return to Kalispell.

The next morning I flew to Yakima Washington and drove to Mount Rainier and hiked for several hours in the Paradise area on the Skyline trail.

http://www.nps.gov/mora/general/maps/paradise_trails.pdf

http://www.nps.gov/mora/trail/skyline.htm

The following day I hiked Rampart Ridge on the west side of the park and Silver Falls on the east side and enjoyed seeing all the waterfalls, glaciers and big trees.

http://www.nps.gov/mora/trail/rampart.htm

http://www.nps.gov/mora/trail/silver.htm

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_rainier.html

http://www.mount.rainier.national-park.com/map.htm

On August 20^th, several planes from Phoenix headed to San Diego. We went to see the Aircraft Carrier Midway and some of us came back to Phoenix while others spent the night but were delayed by fog in the morning.

http://www.midway.org/site/pp.asp?c=coIMKTMCF&b=81441

The following weekend was a hike up Six Shooter canyon and down the telephone trail on Pinal Mountain, south of Globe Arizona.

http://www.stickandboots.org/sixshooter.html

http://www.toddshikingguide.com/Hikes/Arizona/Tonto/Tonto1.htm

October 15^th was the fifth annual trip to the Land of Enchantment RV fly-in, this year it moved to Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just north of El Paso. There is a Museum there as well as lots of RV aircraft that had flown in.

http://www.war-eagles-air-museum.com/aircraft.html

http://www.war-eagles-air-museum.com/automobiles.html

http://www2.mstewart.net:8080/teamrv/loe04/

The following weekend was trip up to Flagstaff to hike the Weatherford trail up to Doyle Saddle on Mount Humphreys.

http://www.toddshikingguide.com/Hikes/Arizona/Coconino/Coconino1.htm

http://www.deborah.ws/Trails/Flagstaff/Weatherford

November 19^th, up to Lake Powell.

http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/lakepowel/du_lpowell.html

and another hike up Picketpost Mountain on December 30^th.

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