Chris Gulden
Thursday, 10/19/2023

SE Bowl to Little Pine to Windsor Canyon
First flights ever to launch from South East Bowl? / Hike and Fly

Reference: [IGC Text Data File] and [Google Earth KMZ File] and [JPG Overview]

6.2 Miles Straight Line Over-Flown Distance (SLOFD)
Max Altitude 4,476 Ft MSL
1 hours 30 minutes 19 seconds / Takeoff at 12:10:51 (estimated) / Land at 1:41:10 PDT
Niviuk Klimber 2

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Chris's Narrative

posted to telegram on 10/19/2023 at 8:59 PM
The weather lined up back there today. The obvious choice was to launch from Little Pine but I won’t make it up there on foot in a morning.  Flying OTB to connect there from the front range wasn’t reasonable today given the wind and low TOL.

There were some ? marks in the forecasts, which didn’t all agree.  In any case the skew t’s looked better in the backcountry than they did on our coastal range.

Our flight plan was to climb up from southeast bowl, bench back to Little Pine, and come back.  I thought it would be rad to climb out from a 600’ hill.  Dave pulled it off!

Thanks Sandra for the retrieve!

my favorite part was when Dave asked me which one was Little Pine

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