Day 3 Thursday 6/30/16
Ray, Kory and Jeff are coming today so I left Chamber office at 11:30am heading up to Paisley, OR to met up with them at Hadley Butte. This site is approx 45 miles north of Lakeview near city of Paisley. The conditions wasn't favorable for flying due to the light and crossed winds. Also, it is a long glide to Summer Lake Hot Springs LZ if I don’t get up so we decided not to fly.
Day 4 Friday 7/1/16
Ray, Kory and Jeff are coming today so I left Chamber office at 11:30am heading up to Paisley, OR to met up with them at Hadley Butte. This site is approx 45 miles north of Lakeview near city of Paisley. The conditions wasn't favorable for flying due to the light and crossed winds. Also, it is a long glide to Summer Lake Hot Springs LZ if I don’t get up so we decided not to fly.
Day 4 Friday 7/1/16
Back to Hadley Butte
Another north winds day so we going back to Hadley Butte. Two paragliders and about 10 hangs came out today. Ray Berger and l were the first group that arrived launch (around 11:30am). There wasn't much wind, but just on & off weak launch cycles and a bit crossed at launch. Paraglider Robin Cushman launched first around 1:45pm, then followed by Ray and myself. I thought it would either be a short flight or sledder and I was planning to land at the bailout LZ on the south side of the Hwy 31 (see pictures below), but turns out Ray and I flew for over 2 hours and max altitude gained was about 85k (2K above launch). I had a few lows save over the bailout LZ, was lucky to have found some lifts to scratch back up. We could have easily flown till sunset, however our driver John was waiting for us at Summer Lake Hot Springs LZ , so we decided to land after two hours. Not an epic XC condition day, but once you're hooked up with thermals, it's an easy trip to Paisley. It was the kind of day that required a bit of patience to keep searching for the next thermal. An unfortunate event for this day was with a pilot who blew his launch and ended up with a broken down tube; luckily he was okay.
Day 5 Saturday 7/2/16
I have to be home at night so I left Lakeview in the morning and go skateboarding at Eugene skatepark on the way back.
I have to be home at night so I left Lakeview in the morning and go skateboarding at Eugene skatepark on the way back.
This is the video from Hadley Butte
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