Sun Valley, ID in early March

[MikeOH]

Looking for wisdom from locals near Sun Valley.  Wife and I planning on a flight to KSUN in early March and I'm unfamiliar with local weather and storm patterns that time of year.  We are traveling from southern California.

What's a good number of days to allow at each end of the trip for weather?  While I'm IR, I'm thinking IMC that time of year in a non-FIKI plane is a seriously bad idea!

[Ragsf15e]

12 hours ago, MikeOH said:

Looking for wisdom from locals near Sun Valley.  Wife and I planning on a flight to KSUN in early March and I'm unfamiliar with local weather and storm patterns that time of year.  We are traveling from southern California.

What's a good number of days to allow at each end of the trip for weather?  While I'm IR, I'm thinking IMC that time of year in a non-FIKI plane is a seriously bad idea!

Good chance a couple days on either end will be fine.  Definitely unpredictable that time of year but it’s clear and sunny between systems.  You’re right, ifr isn’t a good idea as MEAs are very high and approaches in there aren’t great anyway.

[MikeOH]

4 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

Good chance a couple days on either end will be fine.  Definitely unpredictable that time of year but it’s clear and sunny between systems.  You’re right, ifr isn’t a good idea as MEAs are very high and approaches in there aren’t great anyway.

Just the confirmation I needed.  Thanks much!

Important thing is the wife is okay with a couple of days; socked in for a week...would not go over well!

[PeteMc]

I grew up in the NW (eastern WA) and in March you can have some gorgeous blue sky days.  However... we were never surprised when we had a mid March dump of a couple of feet of new snow for spring skiing. 

So as long as you have a flexible schedule OR you can come back for you plane if you have a "must leave" date.  Then you should have a great trip.

[MikeOH]

6 minutes ago, PeteMc said:

I grew up in the NW (eastern WA) and in March you can have some gorgeous blue sky days.  However... we were never surprised when we had a mid March dump of a couple of feet of new snow for spring skiing. 

So as long as you have a flexible schedule OR you can come back for you plane if you have a "must leave" date.  Then you should have a great trip.

Thanks!

No 'must leave' date; I think that is a bad combination with light GA flying.