No grass around here--at least not enough for a runway.

The Kentucky Blue grass runway is down in Silverthorne at 8000' elevation.

Mostly just rocks and sagebrush 'round here.

Leadville is an old mining town. Gold was discovered here in 1867 and the population went from just a few miners--too 50,000 people in a matter of only several months. The state of Colorado had considered making Leadville the state Capital--as it was 3 times the size of Denver at the time.

But, I think they realized that mining is boom and bust and that the town would eventually run out of gold--and it did. The current population is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2850 full time residents--and around 1000 "seasonal" workers who come every year to work the ski resorts--Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper, Breckinridge, Keystone--for the winter. The "seasonal" workers show up around October and leave in May.

Treeline is about 11,500' +/- around here. My lawn here at the house--10,408'--will just barely grow. Gotta water it a lot and feed it a lot.

Ya gotta figure, that if the trees won't grow--not much else can survive either.[&:]

I'm charging batteries, and I gotta make a tiny repair to the right wingtip. Scuffed the covering last time out.

Then we're gonna fire this beast up and see what she tachs at this altitude.