Rincon Ridge 4/27/14

First flight from Rincon turns out to be fun.  After an hour the sun finally won out over the clouds and the thermals turned on.  With Fred C. on chase Reavis and I took a little jaunt to the south just to see what we could do.   Here's the Pics.

Rincon Valley from over launch.

Reavis and Mt. St. Helena as the day turns on.

Annadel and Spring Lake from base heading down the Valley of the moon

Mt. St. Helena from near cloud base near Sugarloaf State Park

Reavis topping out.

Nice Winery across the Hwy.

Landing spot just south of Hwy 12 for 20.7 miles 2.5hrs TAT.

Really fun little XC flight, thanks again for the retrieval Fred.





St.Helena 4-5-14

A good post-frontal day and great flying is usually the ticket to the sky. We punched our tickets!!
   Along for the day were John Lord, Fred Clement, Eric Beckman, and myself flying.   Eric's wife Heather came out and drove for us. Thankyou Heather.  Here's the pics

Launch, looking out to LZ, bright green field in the valley.

Heather ,Eric, and Fred on launch setting up.

Snow on backside of
St. Helena from recent storms

Backside snow.

St. Helena from the SW looking back. Convergence lift between Napa and Knights valleys to 5800".

Nice cloudstreet toward Cobb Mt. and on up the range.  I flew for 1hr 58mns. and landed at Janes LZ with everyone else. Jane came out and visited.  Perfect spring day in every way!!

St. Helena 3-14-14

Here's some pics from a flying day with friends.

Reavis and I out to the west.

Mt. St. Helena

Phil Ray and the south end of the Mt.

Phil and the Napa Vly.

Phil

Reavis and Phil, Matt D's house and Cobb Mt

Mike K.

Reavis and Napa Vly.

Knights Vly and Janes field LZ

Reavis

Reavis and Mt. St. Helena


A good day of flying where everybody got all the airtime they wanted. 6200' was my max altitude 1hr. 45 mns.

Sierra Flight

Couple shots from flying the Sierras in July of 13

Over Kearsrge Peak at Onion Valley with Kurtis Carter

Whitney Peak



Link to video from another flight at Walts,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4NNSjPsbmc.  Enjoy!!

McClure 2-22-14

Turning on the 6030

Ready to Fly!!

Checking out the LZ. Winds are right cross.

A little fade left before final adjustment to right and touchdown.

John Taylor taking photos is in the LZ.

Just missed him, he ducked.

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!!

IV

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