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Departed Evening Ithaca 6th July 2008
Made it to just inside NY

July 7th 2008 made it past Chicago, massive Tstorms in Wisconsin.

July 8th, Made it to just short of the Badlands South Dakota.

July 9th Drive through Badlands, into Rapid City for supplies. Back to Badlands for evening.. timelapse of Tstorms. Got telescope out but disturbed by Bison

July 10th Camera Breaks (canon D40). Night just outside Wind Cave NP (South Dakota). Evening timelapse of planets (saturn n mars conjuction)

July 11th Wind Cave in the morning. Moved on to Devils Tower for evening. Several walks around DT. Timelapse of planets in evening

July 12 Drive across Big Horns... Impressive drive. Sedimentary and cambrian granites labelled by roadside as you drive over them.
Stopped Cody for supplies. Night Campsite just short of Yellowstone.

July 13th. Drive through Yellowstone. Many walks around canyon falls and geysers. Always v. impressive. Evening drive down to Tetons, timelapse just short of Jackson WY of planets setting over mountains.

July 14th. Now planning to try to get planes to fly SLOWER at this altitude (ca 7000ft, thats 1 mile up!). Fly perfectly well, just landing is VERY fast. Need a way to slow them down! Now camped in gros ventre campsite.
In evening walked up moraine in Tetons plateau to get timelapse of mountain shadows going across plains at dusk, but trees blocked view

July 15 Spent an hour or two extending a set of wings, but Confidence smasher!!! This is where I failed last year at flying at altitude, and this year, first flight veers off to the side and crashes. Long pause for thought! Later turns out the wing was warped by exposure to Sun in the car. In evening headed out to do timelapse of tetons in evening... conditions looked poor, but was a surprising success. Made video of geology of the Tetons. (FAR too windy to even attempt to fly, esp. with shattered confidence).

July 16th. Up before dawn and headed out to Mormon row. Set up timelapse of tetons at dawn, then conducted about 20 flight tests of various wing configurations. Regained confidence. Decided unmodified wings were best shot!... sigh...
Evening up onto blacktail butte

July 17th Up and flying by dawn. Tinkered with plane. Evening back up onto blacktail butte. Some neat timelapse of bison. Almost cut me off on the way down though.. also they decided to stampede as I got close to the car!! (:-( )

July 18th. Up and test flight went flawlessly. First trial... fly with the bison. Nervous but it went well. Then the flight over the gros ventre river, where last year I crashed my only AV rig into the river due to lack of power. Flight went well, indeed it all went so well I decided to move on.

July 19th Experimental Breeder reactor and Craters of the moon. Camp past Sawtooths ID

July 20th Up to Glacier, hard drive. Evening on ridge carpark.

July 21st Timelapse of dawn. Too windy to fly. Down other side of glacier (east). Few walks, up on ridge for evening

July 22nd Flew planes and off west. . Nite in rest area in WA on interstate.

July 23rd, camera packed up on rainier. Into Tacoma to best buy.

July 24rd Changed camera, made VFX video. Moved up to Olympic NP. Great views. Nite on the ridge. Electrics failed but only a trip(?)

July 25th Flew planes, down to lake for wash. Back down to Rainier, but too tired to do timelapse... bit of a bugger really

July 26th Down to St Helens but road closed. Spent afternoon battling with video codecs.