Stuck for 2 days in Cedar City, Utah

[ragedracer1977]

Funny.  I just opened up my back up iPad.  I still had the weather briefing open from about 20 minutes before I left KDVT.  TAF called for scattered at 3000 and ceilings at 6000 until well after we had planned to leave on Saturday. Wow were they wrong!

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2018 by ragedracer1977

[Skates97]

On 10/8/2018 at 4:42 PM, ragedracer1977 said:

I have the IR.  It was 0c at the surface.  Tops at 16,000.  Field elevation was 5800'. MEA 10,000.  No oxygen on board.  Flying through who knows how much icing seemed like a bad idea.  

Thanks for the report about the trip and the usb cable. I was going to ask about the temps figuring for Cedar City this time of year it could be icing conditions. Glad you were only stuck a couple of days. I have family that's lived there for 40+ years and there are times a storm will come in and stick around a lot longer than just a couple days. 

I don't mind sneaking out under the clouds, I do it from time to time heading from home to Phoenix because I know it's clear skies to the east, but I don't think I would have tried going down the pass towards St George. We fly it going to visit my wife's dad sometimes on our way back from Salt Lake. It's not a place I would want to find myself if the clouds closed in at all. 

Oh and beautiful pictures of the fall colors! Two weeks ago up in Provo we took my 14 yo son up American Fork Canyon to see the fall colors. He couldn't understand why we were going because he's never really seen the leaves changing. I think I heard him say "Wow!" 20-30 times on that drive.