The Oz Report, a near-daily, world wide hang gliding news ezine, with reports on competitions, pilot rankings, political issues, fly-ins, the latest technology, ultralight sailplanes, reader feedback and anything else from within the global HG community worthy of coverage. Hang gliding, paragliding, hang gliders, paragliders, aerotowing, hang glide, paraglide, platform towing, competitions, fly-ins. Hang gliding and paragliding news from around the world, by Davis Straub.

logo
The
 Oz Report
email
?
older newer
July 10, 2019, 6:42:43 MDT

X Flight »

King Mountain

Facebook|weather

With a twelve hour drive required to get from Kadoka, South Dakota to Arco, Idaho, only Robin was willing to go all the way to fly from King Mountain. No one flew on Monday as the gusts were too strong. Only Robin flew on Tuesday.

Robin flew from the regular King Mountain launch to south of Ellis, in the next valley east of the Lost River Range (King Mountain) and about even with Challis. He flew north to the east side of Challis then hopped over the range.

Larry is in Dillon, Glen is in Butte.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2379942232235288

Robin writes:

On flying progress, you may have seen we have been pushed around by some challenging weather in the northern states these past few days making it difficult to find areas where we can get a day or two of supporting winds and soaring conditions. Monday we tried going east to South Dakota but found overly strong surface winds and later extreme thunderstorms. Monday evening we made a move west to get out of the bad weather and had a memorable overnight journey through northern Wyoming and Montana under some apocalyptic storm cells - rain, hail, lightening, 60 mph wind gusts - it was special. It left our group spread across four states (SD, WY, MT, ID) Tuesday morning.

I got to King Mountain for a foot launch on Tuesday and after some battling with the recently repaired track up, got on to take off for an afternoon launch. A big shout out to my son and driver Sasha, who was stoic at the wheel all through the overnight weather and again going up the dirt track (backwards…) in the morning.

Standing on launch at King was eerie - it is a majestic, humbling site anyways and I'd also known it as windy and active at take off. On Tuesday it was almost zero wind and only occasional weak cycles up the front. I got off around 3pm and quickly climbed out above the (still snowy) peaks. The lift was strong, fat and relatively smooth.

Winds aloft were less favorable being out of the north west, offering no assistance to progress to the north. I ran down the main valley out in front of King at cruising levels of 12,000-14,000'. It was an almost religious experience - breathtakingly beautiful and the solitude of making the run by myself - just the mountain and me. I stopped around 6.30 to prep for the next day and landed at the head of the adjacent valley (~75 miles from take off), to be back in time for Wednesday activity.

Overall we are now some 260 miles from Canada and have a forecast of good soaring conditions and tail wind on Wednesday for a launch from southern Montana.

Discuss "X Flight" at the Oz Report forum   link»


  ‹@
contact email list
Flytec
Wills Wing
Social Responsibility
Learn to Fly
Last Seven Issues
Back Issues
Goodies
Store
Cloudsuck
Support Us
Subscribe
Classified ads
Advertise
Forum
Calendar
Site Guide
Resources
Web Services
Facebook Page
Facebook Group
Facebook Community
Facebook Events
Blog
Google Earth
Coverage
Other blogs
Other forums
Mainstream news
Memorials
RSS & OPML
privacy policy
play Pilotle (mobile)
web proxy

How to subscribe to (support) the Oz Report



You can send $20 or more for a yearly subscription / donation. To pay for your subscription with your credit card or PayPal account:



If you'd rather just send a check for $20 or more, please feel free to do so. The mail gets forwarded to me wherever I'm at.

Payable to:

Davis Straub
PMB 1889 PO Box 2430
Pensacola, FL 32513

Thanks for your support by subscribing to the Oz Report.

Oz Report Hang Gliding Discussion group

Want to discuss hang gliding? You can join the Oz Report hang gliding forum. Click Oz Report Hang Gliding Discussion Group.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing to the e-mail version

You are in charge of your e-mail subscription to the Oz Report. If you wish to unsubscribe or subscribe, click: Subscribe.

Credits

Gerry makes the Oz Report portal much smarter. He is a web consultant and a PHP expert. He's the brains behind the Oz Report, so contact him for PHP programming services. David Glover heads up the Oz Report Radio

To view the Oz Report on the web click Oz Report.

If you want to send in an article to be published in the Oz Report, send it to me here.

Davis Straub
Oz Report