Bill Miller was landing at the backcountry Cougar Ranch Airstrip when he realized he was approaching the end of the runway just a little too fast.“This is not good,” Miller thought to himself as he ran off the end of the runway, through a few rocks and onto a small knoll at around noon on Tuesday, April 23.The Cougar Ranch Airstrip is about 56 miles east of Cascade along the Middle Fork Salmon River in the Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness.The airplane’s nose strut tore loose, and it pitched forward with the nose digging into the hillside and the propellers grinding to an abrupt halt in the dirt.Miller’s 1959 Cessna 182B finally came to rest upside down just shy of a patch of sage brush past the end of the runway.“I was not suffering from shock but was relatively clear-headed,” said the 83-year-old experienced pilot from Boise.Miller hung upside down from his seatbelt for a few minutes, processing his first-ever airplane crash, and the encouraging observation that he did not smell gasoline.He finally released his seatbelt, resulting in a short tumble to the roof, and crawled out the airplane’s passenger door to inspect the damage.“Everything was in order, so I waited and listened for any arriving aircraft.