Past the Gila River, Cliff off the right side and a very small amount of smoke to the North near the cliff dwellings.
50 miles in and we cross into Arizona. For the next 100 miles it's very rugged, wild, beautiful and increasingly bumpy. Cara did an outstanding job on the controls and adjusting for performance. All of our communications, data and navigational aids were working as hoped.
About 100+ miles in we started to see the smoke layer to the north and then increasingly thick smoke.
The Show-low fire has grown tremendously. Flight service provided some information and we navigated to a waypoint to clear the TFRs between the two large fire-fighting centers.
We were able to appreciate the beauty of forest, rocks, canyons and ridges. Off to the left was the Salt River Canyon Wilderness area and rough dry land.
The air became increasingly bumpy in to Prescott. Approaching our destination we were impressed with the air traffic in the area.
Ernest Love Field, Prescott's airport is to the north of the city and a few miles from the Embry-Riddle campus. We gained an hour on the clock an arrived at about 11:00 local time, and were guided to our pre race parking spot on the ramp with about 20 other race planes.
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