Quite unexpectedly, we were able to take a short, local flight this morning from the El Monte Airport, about a half hour from our home in Pasadena . For an hour or so, we flew in and around the mountains that we love to hike. To have such a bird’s eye perspective and to pass so quickly over terrain that takes us whole days to cross was an excellent experience. The skies were perfectly clear and we could see from a snow-covered Mt Baldy (officially called Mt San Antonio) to Catalina Island, over twenty miles off the coast from Palos Verdes.
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November 5, 2011
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