1 flight 3 hrs / Another Epic day at Oceanside 04-11-15

Today was the first time I've flown in WNW conditions at Oceanside. I reached 2000ft AGL and very pleasantly with how the day turned out after all the morning drive between CLO & TDM sites.

It was sunny the whole afternoon and conditions at launch were WNW about 5-10 mph (a bit cross from the right side) when I took off around12:00. There were moments during the day when the wind at launch straighten out, but the strong north wind was blowing consistently up above launch. I was having so much fun in the sweet thermic coastal conditions that I could have easily made several trips to Cape Meare , rocks and to the back ridge.... A few more hangs showed up a couple of hrs later. I landed around 3:30pm (3 hours and 10 mins air time) and left Oceanside at 4:45pm because I needed to get back to Portland for dinner at 7:00pm. I didn't see any paragliders fly Oceanside today. The wind did dropped down more in the late afternoon, so I hope our PG friends got some great flights at either TDM or CLO.

2 flights 2 hrs at Dog patch April 9th 2015

1st  flight: Sledder

2nd flight: 2 hrs / Max altitude 500 ft above launch.

As you can see from the pics, it was a sunny and warm beautiful day at Dog. The winds and thermals were kind of light but everyone still had great soaring flights this afternoon. I hiked up and took a sledder this morning. Than Eric, Paige, Sunny Jim & Kory showed up later to fly the friendly sky with me.  The soarable conditions turned on around 2 pm at the lower ridge first, then it became better around 3 pm. No one got super high. Just another typical day at Dog.

3 flights 0.5 hour at Dog Mtn April 8th 2015

I had 3 flights at Dog today. 1st
flight was soarable , 2nd & 3rd were extender sledders.

Enrique , Dave Little and I arrived at launch early and all 3 of us had a great soarable flight.  It was quite easy to climbed up to 400ft above launch in a buttery smooth ridge
lift. Dave L went to Elk and it looked like he got 1500+ ft above launch.

Alfredo came later and got two long sledders because the wind died down in the afternoon. I flew with him 2 more times on my 2nd and 3rd flight. No rain when we flew and packed up our gliders in sunshine.

I'm spending a night at Morton and will fly Dog again tomorrow morning after breakfast. 

1 flight 4 hrs / An Epic day at Oceanside 04-04-15

The morning session started at 9:30am with Eric , Paige and myself trimming bushes at the bottom & side of Cape Lookout launch. Neil, Enrique and a group of paragliders showed up later to speed up the process. Thanks to David Le and Eric O for organizing this event. We worked till 12:30pm and headed to Oceanside.

The wind at Oceanside launch was SSW 10-15mph and it was warm and sunny. In other words, a perfect spring day for flying at the coast. I launched around 1:30pm right after a few paras and easily climbed up to 1100ft MSL quickly. The highest altitude I got was 1400ft MSL. The lift band was huge so everybody spread out. Ray launched 30 mins later, and as usual he stayed consistently a few hundred ft above everyone and flew the longest distance. At one point I though he flew to Tillamook or Cape Lookout.... There was plenty of lifts to keep everyone enjoying the sky. I flew for 3 hours and 45 mins with multiple trips to Happy Camp , Seal Rocks , back ridge.... Eric & Paige (hang pilots) finally came around 6:00pm. The wind at launch was down to 3-5 mph when they were ready to launch with no one in the air. Eric launched first and they both were able to soared a couple hundred feet above launch till sunset. Ray mentioned yesterday that the conditions at Oceanside was the most epic that he has ever seen in many years. What an amazing day!

Btw, Thanks Ray B and David Le taking the photos of me!

Ray soaring above me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcVOGLtgACQ

Landing footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOcsK-ngD-w

1 sledder at Chehalem 04-03-15

I had a quick flight this morning at Newberg. I launched about 20 mins after PGs Dave B , John K & Mark S ;the wind was down to 3-5mph switchy at launch. It felt really rowdy immediately right after launch.Too scary to fly so close to the tree tops scratching for lifts, plus the rain was approaching, so I headed to the LZ. Thanks to John Kraske for retrieve. 

3 flights 2.5 hrs at Dog Mtn flight 04-02-15

I had a few good flights today at Dog. 

1st flight : 1 hour / 600ft above launch 

2nd flight: 15 minutes (better than sledder)

3rd flight:  1.5 hours/ 500ft above launch

Gabe made the call this morning so I decided to meet him at Dog around 12pm. Larry, Tina, Sunny Jim, Jasmine and few bags showed up later . The conditions were mostly light for today.  It was one of those days that requires a bit of work to maintain altitude.  I was scratching at the south side at a narrow lift band to stay up during the 1st & 2nd flight.  Then it got better at the end of the day and Larry, Kim, Dave and I just kept climbing.

1 flight 0.5 hour at Oceanside Report 04-01-15

I punched off at the south corner with approx 10-13mph SSW winds and climbed straight up to 1000ft msl. Then play around with few eagles for about 25 mins than preceded by very very HEAVY rain and hail storms , also heard the sound of few thunders. ... ... Although the air was buttery smooth and lifty everywhere , I have to forced myself to land.  The sun came out again and wind switch to NNW at the beach right now. Maybe is time to head down to Cape lookout.