Sand Dunes gooning at Area B 10/11/17

Fort Stevens State Park( aka Area B in Warrenton, OR) turned out soarable for two hangs (Gabe & I ) plus three Paras from 1- 5pm today.The sand dunes were miles long and approximately 10ft in height. The winds were blowing pretty much straight up between 10-15mph when I ready to launch at 2pm and it turned slightly south around 4pm. My altitude was between 30- 80ft MSL. We soared the entire dune for 3 hours and made it all the way up north to the edge of Oregon State. Wind died down slowly and turned too cross from North after 5pm. It was such a fun dune soaring day for all of us as you can view from the raw videos and pics. 

3 hrs at Bingen with Neil Clark 10/8/17

 Video from yesterday at Bingin

Bingen was awesome today. 10/8/17.  Neil Clark and I arrived LZ around 11am and it was already blowing 10-15 mph at the LZ and many white capes on the river. We hiked up and ready to launch around 2pm.  Launch conditions wasn't too strong, it was coming straight up from west about 8-10mph. Neil launched first and we  climbed up above launch slowly. We flew for almost 3 hrs and we made it to the Hood River Toll Bridge and cross the river to the Oregon side. Highest altitude was only 800ft above launch (2900AGL) but thermals were poping up consistently. The winds at the LZ was really rowdy when we landed which around 5:00pm. Super switchy due the rotors from the trees on the south side of the parking area. No paraglider or speedwing pilots today. Only two of us (Hang glider).

3 hrs Dog 10/6/17

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Almost 3 hrs from 2 to 5PM Six of us (Alfredo, Andrey, Larry, Tim C, Stasz and myself) had a great flight at Dog Mountain today. Everyone staying up as long as desired. I managed to stay up for almost 3 hours. The winds were light when we arrived at 1:00pm and it got stronger when I ready to launch at 2:00pm. The gusty NW cross wind made launching quite difficult. I launched first and felt huge amount of sinky rotors air immediately from the right side. In the air, it feel like blowing 20 mph from NW. Tim and Larry instruments says 18-24mph out of NW. The higher altitude topped out at about 2,000ft over launch (4,200 ft MSL) after 4PM. Larry got few hundred ft higher than every one else. Elk was working too. Great day for hang gliding.

4.5 hrs Cape Lookout 10/1/07

The hang pilots who attended: 

Rob S, Alex M, Ken M, Neil C, Rick L, Ruun M,  Craig De.

Good paras and hangs day at CLO.  I flew from 12:22 to 5:00PM. Max altitude was 2,000ft. I thinks the winds wasn't that strong for paraglider today because there were few paragliders flying with us (4-6 hangs) in the afternoon. One of the paraglider is Jim Baldo and he made it to the North Point few times in the mid afternoon. His instrument said winds speed was between 15-18 MPH out of NNW. He said penetration was about 4mph without speed bar. I will post more photos and video tomorrow.

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3 flights 4.5 hours Cliffside 9/27 & 9/28/17

9/27/17

Staz, Gabe, Rob A and l flew twice. My first flight was about an hour. Second flight was up for almost 3 hours. Maximum altitude was 2100ft. I think Ray and Staz got up to 2500ft or more. 6 hangs and approx 20 bags came out to play. Everyone had a great long flights. Report from Paraglider Peter Reagan Many pilots and at least 3 different kinds of footlaunched vehicles flew today… Soarable all afternoon, max altitudes maybe 2500 ft. Fairly strong base wind, but occasional nice thermals to the inversion line. It was possible to work east to near the old aluminum plant entrance but at a fairly low altitude, in a fairly strong headwind -Pete

9/28/17 
https://www.facebook.com/pdxrick.lai/posts/10155236976864285

Video from 9/27/17

Video from 9/28/17