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Greg Metz, right, caretaker of the Yellow Pine Bar property near the Salmon River in central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, looks on recently as caretaker Sue Anderson pours a cup of coffee for pilot Ray Arnold, center, after Arnold delivered mail to the couple in his airplane. On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service said it had renewed Arnold’s contract for mail delivery for another year, backing off its plan to sever its contract for the only flying backcountry air mail route remaining in the lower 48 states. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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wheels on May 09 at 9:18 a.m.
Kudos to whoever is responsible for getting this contract renewed.Ray Arnold is literally the only connection to the outside world for people in that area.I lived in Yellow Pine in the early ‘80s while we were rebuilding the old Thunder Mtn gold mine and flew in & out with Ray on numerous occasions.The flights in that backcountry are Fabulous(and sometimes a little hairy)