2 hours Peterson Butte 2/27/18

Two hangs (Bob and myself) flew Peterson's Butte today. We launched at 12:30 in 8-13mph SSW winds at the upper launch. Bob flew for an hour and I got a bit over 2 hours flight. Maximum altitude 600ft above the microwave towers but most of the time just boating around between 300 to 400 ft above. Thanks Bob for driving and hiking.

 https://www.facebook.com/pdxrick.lai/posts/10155628458809285?pnref=story

one hour flight at Chehalem Ridge (Newberg, Oregon) 2/23/18

 Video 

 https://youtu.be/Pc9FN_intRs

Or

https://vimeo.com/257234219

Short report:
Snowy flight report / video /photos from today at Chehalem ridge (Newberg, OR) 
A lot of snow at launch. I got an hour flight from  1 to 2pm. Approx 8-10mph winds at launch and 0-3 mph at the LZs..  Highest altitude 400 ft above launch but mostly 200 to 300ft above launch.   

Detail report:
Chehalem ridge (Newberg, OR) was very good to me today.  I'd stopped by the LZ (Johnson farm) at 11 to leave my bike for retrieve later.  It was dead calm at the LZ with very light winds at launch. There was plenty of fresh snow on top especially where we usually park, about a foot of it which included the setup area for the hangs.  I had to do some snow shoveling for a parking spot and the wind started blowing a bit stronger while I was setting up.  Treetops were swaying but still on the light side.  I punched off at 1pm and it took more steps than anticipated to get airborned. The ridge was working but could only climb a few hundred feet above launch.  It was easy to maintain 200 to 300 feet above.  I had my GoPro mounted on the side of the wing and I want to capture my landing from that angle before the battery ran out so I headed out to the LZ after 50 minutes later.   Dave called me on the radio offer to give me a ride up.  Light snow just started to fall a few minutes after I  got done packing around 3pm.  Thanks again to Dave Blizzard  for the ride up and posting on CPC gmail group, which made my day so much easier. 

1.5 hours flight at Peterson's Butte 2/16/18

Video https://youtu.be/9GB_Zv2IWzw

Congrats to Tim Cayward's on his first flight at Peterson Butte.  It was just the two of us (hang gliders) today without RCers or Paragliders. We arrived launch around 11, with winds already coming in strong at 15-25 mph straight in. Tim launched first around noon on his single surface Falcon 2, while I followed from right behind. We both got up to about 2,000 ft AGL over the towers and cloud base was between 1,800-2,000ft AGL. The lifts were strong due to high winds, which made Tim a bit concern not being able to penetrate through the strong gust, so landed after an hour later.  I flew for another 30 mins and ended with an 1.5 hr flight. It got very windy at the LZ too when we landed, which felt like 20+ mph and a light sprinkle of rain started after we got done packing around 3 pm. Overall, it was great!

2 hours Cape Lookout flight 2/14/18

Video Link:

https://youtu.be/c0cDHMhfgtE

Today we had 6 hang gliders dominate at Cape Lookout (near Netart , Oregon) and everyone had awesome flights. I was first to punch off at 3pm and within mins reached 1,000 ft above launch; max altitude close to 3,000 ft / duration 2 hrs.

 

2 hour and 45mins flight at Dog Mt 2/11/18

Landing video:

 https://www.facebook.com/pdxrick.lai/videos/10155587145879285/

Dog Mountain (Glenoma, WA) was great today. Early spring conditions. It was turbulence earlier.  Ten hang gliders  (Eric O, Stas, Justin, Jasmine, Larry, Tina, Gabe, Thomas, Ken M and myself)  had a soaring flights.  I launched at 1 and landed at 3:45pm. Max altitude 1,200 ft above Launch.  Thomas went back up around 4:30 for a sunset flight and the NE winds were still cranking. He flew till sunset by himself and he complained too much smooth lifts everywhere.