Showing posts with label Flying sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flying sites. Show all posts

Saturday, August 20, 2016

3 flights / 5.5 hrs Tiger and Dog Mtn (8/18 & 8/19)

Video from Tiger and Dog. 



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Aug 18th,2016 Thursday
Tiger Mtn report:

Tiger was good on Thursday.  I flew for 2.5 hrs with two hangs (Alfredo, Travis) and about six paragliders. Michael was nice enough to let us follow his shuttle to launch (6.2 miles). We left the LZ at 12 and I drove down Alfredo's rig.  I'd hiked up and launch around 3pm. Unlike the forecast said, there wasn't a strong north, but thermic with really light north wind cycles. It was either very light north or almost zero wind at the LZ for most of the day. The top of the thermals was about 800 ft above launch. 

Aug 19th, 2016 Friday 
Dog Mtn report:  

A lot of decision making on where to go; Saddle, Black Mtn, Tiger Mtn or Dog?? We voted for Dog because is closer although the forecast called for East winds at Glenoma (wrong direction) with 90+ degree.  It turns out that Alfredo, Larry, Travis and I had great flights at Dog. The east wind was starting to lighten around 1:30pm. I took off from the north launch on the 1st flight (at 3pm) and west launch on the 2nd flight (at 5:30pm).  It was pretty much dead calm at launch and with really light thermal cycles at the LZ.  Both flights combined was almost 3 hrs of air times. The 2nd flight was much better, topped out 1200 ft above launch over the microwave towers.  Larry went further east and I think he got 2k above launch. Travis went to Elk with his Falcon and made it further west to the Cliff. Hopefully, he will share more about his adventure. Another fun day at Dog. 

Aug 20th Saturday
Supposedly,l was going to either Rampart or Black Mtn today. But something came up so l came home last night. 


Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Flying sites in Pacific Northwest (Oregon Hang gliding flying sites)

 Oregon & Washington Hang Gliding / Paragliding flying sites

I live in Portland,Oregon and do fly regularly along with a few others living in Portland that flies on weekdays too. We fly during winter too. There are few sites here in Pacific Northwest is flyable year around. When it rains, it usually rain for a few hours then clears up. If you don't mind traveling the extra miles, there's a lot of options here in Pacific Northwest between Oregon and Washington. The Google maps below shows some of the flying sites I go during the weekend on short trips. There's also quite a few longer distance sites, such as: Black Mtn, Lakeview, Chelan, Woodrat........ etc. A couple inland sites; Chehelam (Newberg,OR) and Peterson Butte (Lebenon,OR) are also good places to go whenever you see the South wind components in the forecast.

I usually post on the CBCC and ohgalist list about my flying plans. You can also do the same.  Feel free to email me directly any time (No Facebook please). Looking forward to flying with you soon!

Btw, Join this groups too. 
ricklai@yahoo.com

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