The Slug Crawls Over the Rockies  Many pilots hesitate to fly
small single-engine airplanes on long trips or over high
terrain. That's a shame, because they're missing some of the
greatest joys of aviation. A 2,000 NM X-C across the Continental
Divide in a light plane is no big deal when properly planned and
approached with the right attitude. Case in point: the author's
strictly-VFR trip from California to Wisconsin in his two-place
Grumman Yankee.