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Jonathan Dietch (aka NMERider or JD)

Chiefs Launch (Ojai) to East Beach (Santa Barbara)
Saturday 11/8/2014

About 29.3 Miles from Launch to Landing 2 hours 54 minutesairtime Launch 11:00:06 AM PST Land at 1:55:10 PMPST Max Altitude about 6,000 feet

See Also: Jonathan's [Google Earth KMZ Track File file], [IGC Text Data], and [Photo Set from All Pilots]

Article Derived Jonathan's postings starting at:
http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3089#p9163
Initial Post by NMERider » Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:01 am

Great day at Chief Peak w/ good turnout. Thanks to Eddy for driving for us hangies. I'm working on the video bit by bit. Here are some frame stills to give an idea of the day.

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            TQ by Chief Peak ↑ (click image for full size)

            TQ by Nordhoff ↑ (click image for full size)

           South Side out front of Nordhoff ↑ (click image for full size)

            Small gaggle (sort of) by Nordhoff ↑ (click image for full size)

            Name that PG? ↑ (click image for full size)

            Name that PG? ↑ (click image for full size)

            Driving in to some ridge or other before Whiteledge ↑ (click image for full size)

            Face first at the boulder lining Whiteledge spine ↑ (click image for full size)

            Finally topping out before heading West across the pass ↑ (click image for full size)

Wayne, John & Mark at East Beach. From the air I initially thought I'd arrived last from Ojai

Tracks from me, Southside, Neal & SD  ↑ (click image for full size)

Posted by NMERider » Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:46 pm

flychild wrote: quote
....good motivation to make it over the pass this time around. Thanks Tom. Had to work hard on the east side to get over though. We weren't skying out on the east side off the pass, that's for sure. Actually got highest, about 6K, over chiefs on the first climb of the day.... end quote

Jonathan Comment:
From out of my radio speaker while I'm setting up my HG comes,"...just went through six thousand and still climbing....". That's what I call motivation. I saw you and SD briefly during my initial ingress of Whiteledge. SD appears in the following frame still. I'm not sure if you're visible but I have our tracks correctly synced and you're close-ish.

Do I or don't I? ↑ (click image for full size) / Peter & Sundowner circled in red on the SW spin

I didn't have the testicular fortitude to shoot through that gap.
I'm sorry we didn't have a group all land at the beach. Would have been some party.

Feel my pain! :-O
Posted by NMERider » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:23 am

Well, the video edit just got more interesting. flychild sent me a video clip of his crossing of Whiteledge. I synced our video tracks together and here are a pair of contrasting perspectives from within seconds of one another. Can you feel my pain?

            Grovelling at the first trigger w/ Southside, flychild all doing well (circled in pink) ↑ (click image for full size)

            Climbing w/ sd while Southside and NME grovel in the distance (circled in pink) ↑ (click image for full size)

     Flushing down the SE spine of Whiteledge while flychild crests the summit and heads West behind me out of sight. ↑ (click image for full size)

Cresting Whiteledge as NME flushes down the SE spine (circled in pink). ↑ (click image for full size)

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