WLM Spring / Early Summer 2016 | Page 50

WLM | adventure It was a trip of surprises. I took off from the now former home of the airplane, Leadville, Colorado, at nearly 10,000’ on a cold July morning, having slept in a tent behind the hangar. Passing by a lone mountain over 14,000’ that I had missed for a book I was writing, I headed northwest by way of Steamboat Springs, refueling before plunging into the great desert unknown of Wyoming. The thing is, those of us that aren’t from the West te