On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:31:00 -0800, Ron Garret
wrote:

The assigned route was not on an airway, and so there is no minimum IFR
altitude on the route. The first 250 miles or so are over pretty flat
terrain. It is only shortly before you get to the destination that the
mountains begin.

Of course there is.

And you can obtain it from a sectional, an enroute chart, or (at least in
my case) from my GPS.

Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)