BFE

We left Des Moines bright and early and had planned on a stop in Rapid City, SD for fuel, but winds were favorable so we determined that we could make the trip to Seattle in two instead of three legs if we kept going a bit. Paraphrasing a lot it goes something like this. OK is there anything out there where we can get fuel? Well there's Miles City, MT. Never been there, but they have Jet-A. And if the winds keep up we can make it on into Seattle from there without stopping. Let's do it. A quick amendment request to ATC and a slight change of course and away we go. I've driven through some of these parts before and it's a long way between dots on the map.

We did pass over the Missouri River. That was quite pretty.

So on to Miles City. As you can see here It's a long way to anywhere else from here. Not that it's a bad thing mind you, it just is what it is. It was a little hazy, but we were pretty close before we even realized that what we were seeing was the town.
As is quite typical for this time of year they had been having a number of wildfires around here. I am sure that contributed some to the poor visibility. Miles City is one of a number of fields out west where firefighting aircraft stage. Today there were a few of the smaller "tankers" on the ramp waiting to go.

Eastern Montana has a lot of grasslands without a great deal of timber so these crop-duster type aircraft can be very effective.

I imagine they would be quite fun to fly.