LOL! Excellent! I wondered if you'd made it out before the TFR came up.
We were coming in from Pullman yesterday and Portland was fogged in, (10
a.m.) so rather than wait for it to clear up in the Dalles we steered for
the mountain.
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Stayed in contact with McMinnville radio for NOTAMS, TFRs, etc. They said
"Follow the advised traffic pattern and don't fly into steam or ash." Duh.
We steered away from the mountain and back around to the south side when we
saw that the visitor's observatory parking lot was empty. That could only
mean they evacuated it, so it was time to go.

Before anybody preaches about how dangerous the mountain is, I'm a native.
I remember all 5 major eruption in 1980 and have jars of ash scraped off our
vehicles and driveway. And it ain't like we flew an airplane into space
today or anything. ;

-c

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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I have about a hundred more But here are a few sucked having a 5 mile TFR
today but ohh well.

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