Chiopy wrote:Why blackhawk :?:
Doesn't Pine look just as good or better, with better height along the route?
As Chris writes Pine is probably closed. But I 'm seeing WNW winds anyway. Perhaps Abel might work? Since it's a long hike if you don't get up maybe the PGs can take a chance on that one.
Are you guys looking to set records :?:
I think that best we can hope for is a flight out to Baker; it looks like the heights drop significantly as you get closer to Nevada. But I'll take an 80 mile flight anytime, especially in March.
How about Crestline to Sylmar
I'm seeing west. We were actually looking at a Kagel launch fying down to Cuc and then going OTB from there, but there seems to be low level inversion on the front range so we are thinking the high desert might be the safer call. The general forecast for the Lucerne Valley is saying NW so we might end up going to ORD rather than Blackhawk. But NAM is saying W turning SW near Twenty Nine Palms, and GFS is saying SW. That might be a problem for Ord, but if we can get off there it might be easier to get to the 15 east of Dagget than it would be if we started from Blackhawk.
John