2015-08-21-Mtn-Flying-LaGarita-Hooper: Mountain training flight with Rick Turley in his personal Cessna 182 N8768M. The atmosphere was smoke filled from the fires on the west coast of the United States. Visibility was nominally about 8 miles in smoke, where the visibility is usually over 100 nautical miles in Colorado. We flew from Fort Collins/Loveland Airport (KFNL), Loveland, Colorado to LaGarita Ranch Airport (5CO6) (identifier recently moved from Meyers Ranch), South Fork, Colorado, to Great Sand Dunes Recreation Hot Springs Pool Airport (on DEN sectional, not charted), Hooper, Colorado, (click for link), for lunch, then west to Quarter Circle Circle Ranch Airport, ~25 miles SE of Gunnison, Colorado, where it was too windy to land, then back to KFNL.

	Closing the hangar, 08/21/15.	Final preflight preparations, 08/21/15.	Runup, 08/21/15.	Pilot in Command, Rick Turley, 08/21/15.	Runup complete, headed for KFNL RWY-33, 08/21/15.

	Nearby Horseshoe Reservoir is full, Ken Wood has boats on the water, 1, 08/21/15.	Nearby Horseshoe Reservoir is full, Ken Wood has boats on the water, 2, 08/21/15.	Climbing for Kenosha Pass and South Park, SW of Denver, 08/21/15.	LaGarita Airport Runway, looking E, 08/21/15.	Rick Turley with Cessna 182 N8768M at LaGarita, 08/21/15.

	Wind sock at SW end of the field is hard to see, 08/21/15.	LaGarita departure, turning SE (right) to do it again, 08/21/15.	Looking N, LaGarita Airport is visible as the E-W strip in the middle of the picture, 08/21/15.	Looking N, blue roofed house is on the left 45 for left traffic, landing W, LaGarita, 08/21/15.	At LaGarita pattern altitude, slowed for the approach, 08/21/15.

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	Landing W at LaGarita Airport (5CO6), South Fork, Colorado, 08/21/15.	Departing LaGarita, headed for Great Sand Dunes Pool. Note how the smoke limits visibility, 08/21/15.	Looking N to the pool, 08/21/15.	The airport is the line to the right of the pool (E), 08/21/15.	Left base, turning final, landing west Sand Dunes Pool, Hooper, 08/21/15.

	Rick Turley with Cessna 182 N8768M. Looking SW, see the high visibility wire marker balls, pool in the background, 1, 08/21/15.	Rick Turley with Cessna 182 N8768M. Looking SW, see the wire marker balls, pool in the background, 2, 08/21/15.	Sand Dunes Pool runway, looking E, 08/21/15.	Sand Dunes Pool wind sock above the pool, looking W, 08/21/15.	Looking NE from the pool to the airport ramp, 08/21/15.

	Sand Dunes Pool, 08/21/15.	Sand Dunes Pool changing rooms, 08/21/15.	Cabana is for rent, 08/21/15.	Kids water slide, 08/21/15.	Home again, Cessna 182 N8768M in the hangar, 08/21/15.

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