Across the Rocks.

Other pilots have been encouraging me to tuff it out and make the flight to the dry side. So sunday morning I hopped in 34H and departed S50 @8:45. I climbed up as far as the class b ceiling allowed, shooting thru the gapp at Tiger Mt. to I-90. Flying east now along the freeway I held 500fpm climb @ 85knts. Issaquah disapeared behind me, and I topped out over North Bend at 9500'.I could see Cle Elum aheah as Iflew over the ski summit and lake Eaaston. I spotted the grass runway at easton then both the runways at Cle elum. I had seeen the flat bowl that contains Ellensburg, and the airport soon materialized out of the haze. I was so high , and I had begun a decent as Cle Elum had passed beneath the wings. A few miles past KELN I turned back and finally made pattern altitude as ai made the call on the 45 to downwind. Runway 7 led me to the transient parking, where a lineman from a local FBO pointed out the EAA hanger down the way. The EAA guys there were real nice and showed off their aircraft. Allong with a few small fast home built singles was also a Pitenpol tandem.. nice plane. It was getting too hot for me , at 10:30 AM! So I thanked my hosts and said goodby. It took a few munuites but I programed Aubuen into the Gps then took of on 29 , with a slight cross wind from 330 at 8knts. No problem. The fields were heating uo and I could feel the rising air. They had a density alt warning and I circled the valley once to gain altitude( this is why I am the Chicken pilot, I like the safety of the extra altitude over the mountian terrain.) then coasted across getting Flight following from the summit on. I did notice that all me traffic was way below me. I might try lower altitudes next time. The GPS track took me across Stampede Pass coming back.