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Slide to Squaw Valley 7/20/13

Slide launch.  Next day, didn't turn on GoPro till I was over the Mt. Improvements to launch are a help.

Kurtis on launch taken from the next day when we went south. He made Mina and I landed in the Owens near Janeys

Drifting back toward Mt. Rose around 13500'.

About 16000' looking toward the SE. Washoe Lake, Carson City, and the Pinenut Range with cumys popping

Topping out at 17200'/ Kurtis got 18000' He's visible through my nose wires.

Over Kings Beach. Lake Tahoe/ Gem of the Sierras!

Squaw Valley straight ahead easily within reach!

Squaw Valley below looking back toward Slide Mt.

Over Squaw looking SE down Sierras.  Someday I'll go for a full circumnambulation, probably could have done it this day.

Kurtis landing below.

Approach over Squaw Creek

In the middle of the meadow to avoid rotor.

 

A Sony Rx100 closing shot/ downtube cam.  All the rest are from a hero3 Blk video wingcam.

This was a called task to Squaw Valley to meet up with Kurtis's cousin.  It was such a good day it was pretty easy to do.

Slide is one of the best sites on the Sierras. 

 

Here's a link to the video,   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDvI0WNegU enjoy 

St. John to Redding 90 miles/ 6Hr flight 8-10-13

  A post frontal day in August, low cloud bases but good lift all day. 15 pilots showed up but only 5 launched as cycles died from over development of clouds turning off the thermal engine, the sun.  I launched first at 1 as soon as I was setup but it took another hour to get to cloudbase of 8800'.  Here's the pics. taken from a gopro hero 3 black video to be edited later,  Now in order!


Setup and ready to fly!!



Here we go!



Total commitment!!



End of ramp and away!!

 



St. John Launch Flyby, people on ramp.

The paragliders were having a flyin at Potato Hill

Paragliders

Wispies over St. John at 8800'.



Looking up range over the back on glide toward Felkner Ridge



Red Mt. Climbout to 6500'.



Over Red Mt. toward Paskenta

Looking back toward Red Mt. west of Paskenta

Paskenta from the west 30 miles out

Happy Valley from 7500' west of Anderson

Lake Shasta from NW. of Redding

Sundial Bridge blowup from Sony RX-100 Downtube cam

 

Redding and Sacramento Rvr. Sundial Bridge. http://www.turtlebay.org/sundialbridge




LZ, with streamer hitting ground next to bush, wind was 7 to 10 straight south from the Hwy.



Flaring the wing to stop, landing gear down.

Let her fall into my arms





Sweet landing next to Hwy 299 at 7pm



A perfect day. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen!!






Hull Mt. to St. John Mt. and Back 6/15/13

Setting up on Hull MT. Nice cumy calling me over St. John Mt.

Lake Pillsbury from around 9000' where I will eventually land.

Nice cloud street running north from Hull. A working headset, a dedicated driver, and I would have been gone.

Climbed to 11800' at Hull and decided to see what the new bird could do so headed to St. John.
This is looking back at Pillsbury from 12100' over the top

Snow Mt., Goat Mt., Clearlake, St. Helena. Diablo far left corner

East Park Reservoir and Stonyford

Back toward Hull Mt.

Flew to Snow from St. John climbed to 11800' and glided back to the Landing Zone at Pillsbury. Really happy with the performance from the new bird.

First shot of the new wing!!

The design is a composite of some stuff I found on the web. A tribute to Adi Da Samraj.

St Helena/ 5/26/13

A few pics from a flight to Davis crossing Lake Berryessa.

Sweet air on a pre frontal day.  45.3 miles to near Davis.  2hrs.40mns.
Some pics are a bit out of focus because my camera has focused on my side wire.

Another fun Flyday at St. Helena

Just a few shots from Fridays flight with Kurt Niznik and Fred Bickford.  Fred forgot his vario so sankout and didn't get in the photos.





Kurt in his paraglider with Mt. St. Helena behind. North end of Napa Valley Ca.





The Palisades to the east of Calistoga Ca.  We landed behind Old Faithful Geyser of Ca.  Max alt was 5000 by Kurt.