[Flight Articles for Presidents Weekend 2012]   Weather Archive for [Friday 2/17/12] & [Monday 2/20/12]

Aaron LaPlante
Sunday, 2/19/12

Skyport to Birnam Wood Golf Course

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FOURRRRRRRR!!!!
by Aaron » Posted Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:54 pm

only 4 junkies showed up for the fly above all van. weird on a sunday. hammer, lj, and an out of towner were launching eliminator by the time we got up there. cloudbase varied from 2600-2800 and pretty dark everywhere. bo and i jumped off and he headed to antennas and i headed to parkers as i kept losing visual of everyone in the white cheddar. my eyes soon went fuzzy at parkers so followed the compass east. hammerhead(returning from westbowl), alBOtross and i all joined up at monicito foothills about 2000 feet. ad-venture time! we all kept yo yo'in down range. i was bouncin between 1800-2500 and those two were staying slighty higher. i somehow dropped anchor for some time between romero and castle and made a mistake of leaving zeros and chasing two climbing hawks behind me. well i think they read a different book then me and i soon was less then 1400 and looking for an lz. i was setting up for a big backyard and got a burble that drifted towards the ocean and spit me out right on top of Birnam Wood golf course behind summerland. kept milking hawk farts hoping for one to get me over ortega hill to summerland beach. but never got anything that smelly so landed on the hole 9 fairway. thanks to Pete for swooping me up. Justin made east beach, alBOtross made bates, and hammer made mussel shoals. fun day in the foothills with 7 pilots total landing at 5 different LZs.

Hammer eastbound in front of Romero / Launched from the Liminator, landing at Muscle Shoals
16+ miles straight line distance from launch + distance to turn point / Westbowl?