Mine Day

Today was a really neat day. We took off out of Saskatoon at 0645 this morning and after a smooth climb to 17'000 feet we settled down for a nice early morning flight to Esterhazy. It was a nice change for a flight since it was a south-east destination instead of due north like most of our flights. After landing on the 3000 foot strip we got to join our passangers on a tour of a potash mine. It was really amazing, it was 3000' below ground and had foot prints(mined networks) the size of Winnipeg. Really cool.

At about 1530 we returned to the air and got to dodge a few large Towering Alto-Cumulus clouds (developing thunderstorms). It felt like we were flying around large mountains and through tight canyons, pretty fun hand flying. After about 20 mins of weather deviating, we got clear of the clouds and flew a straight course back to Saskatoon and ended the flight with a real greaser of a landing. It's always nice to finish a day off with bright blue skies and lot's of afternoon to enjoy it.