Pine remains closed

[Tom Pipkin]

Quote from the Forest Service report on 8/29/07;

The revised emergency closure will encompass all national forest lands between Highway 166 and Highway 33. On the east side of Highway 33, the Pine Mountain Road (aka Reyes Peak Road and Forest Road 6N06), and all recreation facilities along the road will remain closed, as will the Boulder Canyon Trail (Forest Trail 23W03) between Pine Mountain Road and the Forest Service Station at Ozena. The closure affects approximately 663,435 acres of the 1.76 million-acre national forest.

[Jeffy]

Here's the map...
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/maps/full/770/0/

[Southside]

Some of us are heading over to Crestline for an attempted OTB flight to the desert. They've been getting above 10k all week out there and tomorrow looks like more of the same.

Surely someone will go out with us and take a stab at the 69 mile PG record. Me, I'm just trying to defend.

John

[Dean S]

John, let me know what the plan is for Sat. - meet time, etc. I might join you guys.

[pengoquin]

Marshall sounds like the best bet. Is there a plan in play?

[Southside]

Good XC day at Crestline if you were able to stay ahead of the storm cells. I ended up in Johannesberg for an 80 miler, keeping the FW record in Team Topa's hands. However, the flight of the day belonged to Bruce Barmakian who flew to Lone Pine, which upped his own RW record to 168 miles. Tony landed at the 100 mile mark in Inyokern.

There was at least one PG on course, but I don't know where they ended up.

Btw, I left the front range with 11.5

John

[Tom Pipkin]

Nice work John.

Thanks for the report.

[JimmyZ]

Sweet Flyin'.... Nice to hear some people are taking advantage of the monsoon season. :-)

[Dizzy]

There was at least one PG on course, but I don't know where they ended up

I landed near El Mirage. Here is a story and some photos:
http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/forum/20070902/976

My original plan was to go NW, but I did not expect OD moved into desert so soon. When I landed I realize that the best route for that day was north direction.

[Southside]

Dizzy,

I believe we shared a thermal just north of Lake Arrowhead (Fusion with Bretton Woods Foreign Exchange written on the leading edge).

If anyone cares here is my write up of the flight: http://www.hanggliding.org/weblog_entry.php?e=149

John

[BobA]

Oh Yeah We Care ! In fact, Diablo left me news you had flown a 215 miler, so we quickly spread the word to all the HG and Sailplane pilots hanging around Lone Pine (flying the Owens) last weekend ! We even speculated you were flying Jonny Durand's RS 3.5 comp wing that you picked up for a bargain recently. Way to go. Congratulations on breaking the Creastline FW record !

Cougie

[Dizzy]

John,
Yes I remeber you, the lift was good and climb was easy. Thanks for report.

Alex

[Southside]

Oh Yeah We Care ! In fact, Diablo left me news you had flown a 215 miler, so we quickly spread the word to all the HG and Sailplane pilots hanging around Lone Pine (flying the Owens) last weekend ! We even speculated you were flying Jonny Durand's RS 3.5 comp wing that you picked up for a bargain recently. Way to go. Congratulations on breaking the Creastline FW record !

Cougie

Yeah, someone just emailed me about that 215 mile flight. When I heard Tony leave that message on your phone, I was thinking "What the H did you say that for?" I figured he said it just to get you to call him back sooner.

If you read my report you saw that my motion sickness problem didn't just suddenly disappear.

Re the glider: just to clarify it was Jonny's 2005 S model; and after saying that he would accept my offer if I paid the shipping the guy had a change of heart and decided to wait for a better one. I wouldn't of had it in time for this flight anyway.

Dizzy, too bad you weren't on the same frequency to hear our direction.

John