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| Turning on the 6030 |
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| Ready to Fly!! |
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| Checking out the LZ. Winds are right cross. |
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| A little fade left before final adjustment to right and touchdown. |
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| John Taylor taking photos is in the LZ. |
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| Just missed him, he ducked. |
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| Chilling with KM and Pam Penrose. Had a great flying getaway for five days. 3 XC flights, 1.5, 5.75 and 10miles on the final day getting to 5500' after leaving the hill on my way to Smith Station on Hwy 120. Boy am I sore, I'll get over it!! Thanks Skyriders for sharing the air!! |
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| Slide launch. Next day, didn't turn on GoPro till I was over the Mt. Improvements to launch are a help. |
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| Kurtis on launch taken from the next day when we went south. He made Mina and I landed in the Owens near Janeys |
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| Drifting back toward Mt. Rose around 13500'. |
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| About 16000' looking toward the SE. Washoe Lake, Carson City, and the Pinenut Range with cumys popping |
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| Topping out at 17200'/ Kurtis got 18000' He's visible through my nose wires. |
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| Over Kings Beach. Lake Tahoe/ Gem of the Sierras! |
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| Squaw Valley straight ahead easily within reach! |
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| Squaw Valley below looking back toward Slide Mt. |
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| Over Squaw looking SE down Sierras. Someday I'll go for a full circumnambulation, probably could have done it this day. |
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| Kurtis landing below. |
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| Approach over Squaw Creek |
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| In the middle of the meadow to avoid rotor. |
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| 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. |
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| Setup and ready to fly!!
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| St. John Launch Flyby, people on ramp. |
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| The paragliders were having a flyin at Potato Hill |
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| Paragliders |
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| Wispies over St. John at 8800'. |
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| Looking up range over the back on glide toward Felkner Ridge |
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| Red Mt. Climbout to 6500'. |
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| Over Red Mt. toward Paskenta |
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| Looking back toward Red Mt. west of Paskenta |
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| Paskenta from the west 30 miles out |
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| Happy Valley from 7500' west of Anderson |
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| Lake Shasta from NW. of Redding |
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| Sundial Bridge blowup from Sony RX-100 Downtube cam |
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| Redding and Sacramento Rvr. Sundial Bridge. http://www.turtlebay.org/sundialbridge |
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| LZ, with streamer hitting ground next to bush, wind was 7 to 10 straight south from the Hwy. |
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| Flaring the wing to stop, landing gear down. |
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| Let her fall into my arms |
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| Sweet landing next to Hwy 299 at 7pm |
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| Setting up on Hull MT. Nice cumy calling me over St. John Mt. |
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| Lake Pillsbury from around 9000' where I will eventually land. |
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| Nice cloud street running north from Hull. A working headset, a dedicated driver, and I would have been gone. |
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| 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 |
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| Snow Mt., Goat Mt., Clearlake, St. Helena. Diablo far left corner |
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| East Park Reservoir and Stonyford |
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| Back toward Hull Mt. |
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| 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. |
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| The design is a composite of some stuff I found on the web. A tribute to Adi Da Samraj. |
