Friday 8-21-2015
Dog (Glenoma,WA)
5 hours / Topped 4500ft MSL
Saturday 8-22-2015
Dog (Glenoma,WA)
1st flight sledder
2nd flight 2.5 hrs / 50ft above launch
Yeah it was really smoky at Dog all day (Saturday) ,poor air quality and visibility. Not much wind at launch and no big thermals unlike Friday conditions but enough lifts for few of us squeeze out few hours or so of soaring flights.
Sunday 8-23-2015
Rampart (Snoqualmie Pass, WA)
3 hrs / Topped 7500ft MSL
Two bags and three hangs flew Rampart today. It started out really cross from the East and was light.The hang launched streamers that showed wind blowing the opposite direction so we went up to the Paraglider's launch. Paragliders took off first around 2:30pm and got 500ft over quickly so we decided to setup. When I was ready to launch around 3:15 pm, both Paragliders had already landed, so I thought it would be a sledder. I launched first at 3:20pm and the air was pretty rowdy. Finding stable lifts was difficult during the first 1.5hrs of my flight. Until Alfredo launch around 4:45pm is when things started to smooth out. We were able to connect with some big smooth thermals that took us to 7500 ft; we flew to Rampart's big cliff wall, Alta mountain and across the valley....etc. Got cold and tired after 3 hrs later so we landed around 6:30 pm in a pretty smooth NW wind at the LZ. I didn't feel any rotors.
Friday at Dog over Elk Mt
Sunday at Rampart
Alfredo launching
Rampart skies still hazy on Sunday afternoon
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