We decided to do it as an instructional flight because that gave Connie a chance to see what it was like to fly a plane (she got her first 0.9 hours), and also because it was actually cheaper than doing it as a purely scenic flight.
Connie and the airplane, a Cessna 172XP:
Connie at the controls:
Downtown Victor (about 8 miles south of Driggs, and location of Pierre's
Playhouse):
Darby Canyon, site of the Wind Cave:
This shot has Table Rock near the bottom (with the trail leading up
to it on the bottom right), and (I think) South Teton in the middle at
the top:
Grand Teton under the wing:
A glacier with a glacial lake:
The Tetons again, this time out of the left window:
I don't remember if there was a particular reason for this shot, but
it was too pretty to leave out:
Our altitude at this point is 12,400' (and that's Steve Phillips on
the right):
Grand Targhee Resort is on the left, and
the top of the chair lift is on the right:
I think the farm my father grew up on is in this picture, a little left
and below center:
Downtown Driggs:
Here we are on the downwind leg of our approach to land, with the runway
on the right (and extending beyond the right edge of the picture):
