Saturday, 9/28/13  [Weather] and [Flight Articles] by [Sundowner] [Ron Faoro] [OJ] [Aaron] [Jon Blake]

Aaron LaPlante aka galleta Saturday 9/28/13

EJ's to Castle Ridge and back to East Beach

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Posted by galleta » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:22 pm

a bunch of cars and a full eagle van at ej bowl and a ton o' pilots more horned up then a blowup doll in handcuffs. it didnt dissappoint. la cumbre wind talker was 12 degrees cooler then monticito talker at 10:30am, pressure was 1019ish and wind was sse. mountains were extremely clear. jumped off after faoro and we seemed about 30 minutes too early for the crackin stuff. we surfed the ridge back and forth between la cumbre and ej until it went BUHHYYYYYAAAA! 4800 everywhere and parapanties were afloat in every direction(bart got 5100 at la cumbre). only two hang danglers today, but they lapped it up. turned at altenator with with colorado neil, toplanded ej, then floated east with neil and faoro while oj was out front pulling some amazing glides on his shiny new toy. that thing can go! we all got stuck evenish with castle ridge from the moto track to the fireroad swithbacks. oj kept going and flushed to padaro a few more bumps down the way short of powerlines. not getting above 3600ish i decided to try to fly back to parma since it was only light sw. neil followed and we bobbed back into the wind. at monticito got to 3800 and tons of happy folks and cars at the beach so we headed there. sundowner launched late, tagged painted cave with 4800 and was coming through monticito when we headed to the beach. it looked like faoro's patience paid off and he hung at castle till he popped through and i imagine truax and him took a shot at the pass. cant wait to hear the stories! super fun day! i had an amazing landing at the beach(humility is a beautiful thang, hopefully blake posts the pic).....see you tomorrow

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colorado neil lookin beautiful ↑

lj goin stealth style ↑

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Well at least I didn’t land in the ice plant………

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