Anybody going to the Owens for Memorial Day?

[JimmyZ]

I've got the green light from the fam for Memorial Day and need to release some pent up terra firma sickness. Anyone heading up there for the weekend?

James Z

[BobA]

Looks like a number of people are lining up to go...John Lyon, Hammer & Phoenix, Janet & DD, Little John, Greg Brown...it also looks like the weather will be good for flying, light winds, increasing monsoonal moisture thru the weekend...could be Heaven is a Cloudstreet.

[Dizzy]

I want to go, keep looking for weather forecast updates.

[JimmyZ]

So far, so good. I"m excited....

[redfly]

hey when are you guys heading up? friday evening? what time?

i might want to join live in west LA...

[redfly]

i am gearing up to head for the owens tomorrow evening.

i have 1 more spot in my car - who is heading up?

i still have no retrieve organized and it would be great if i can get in touch with anyone that has a spot left (i am a bag pilot so don't need much space ;) )

if you happen to be there let me have your number or call me: 323 482 50 79 or jonas at buchli dot org

cheers
jonas

[Dizzy]

For those who is not on the twitter, here is my Satuday's flight to Big Pine:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/206563

BobA, how was your flight?

[redfly]

hey guys,

was great hanging out with all of you - both on ground and in the air! what a great bunch of people!!

for those that did not make it to the owens: the conditions where good, alas some ODing on saturday which made us land shortly after noon. not sticking to the high ground in the beginning i was not as fast as alex and made it to independence (my tracklog got not saved this day grrrr )
landing was interesting, going down vertically, shortly after landing the wind picked up by another 5mph or so...

sunday was drier and less windy, but still some ODing around walt's and thunderstorms in the mountains (but far away). however towards 2pm the conditions started to look a bit too iffy over the inyo's for my taste and i put it down at tinemaha not far away from james. when we were back at camp indeed it looked dark grey back there where we landed.

all the spines just worked great, and it was good fun spiraling skywards. good for me the hangies marked all the cores along the way
before onion valley things started to be a bit slow, onion valley itself was trashy (as usual as i learned later ) but after that i connected to the screamer from hell which beamed me back to cloudbase in no time, from there it was a loooong glide out into the valley, taking along some bubbles on the way.

here is the tracklog:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/207441

bob, DD, hammer, greg made it way further, let us her their stories!

will be back for some more, hopefully without the ODing next time and maybe taking some O2 with me

see you in the sky!
jonas

[Dizzy]

Unfortunately I forgot my camera at home, Is anybody made pictures? Would be great to see them! And I'm agree with Jonas we should come back for some more!

[redfly]

bob took some pix of us taking off on saturday.

[BobA]

My flights on Saturday & Sunday:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/210851
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/210831

It was a nice time, quite scenic, and tons of lift ! Dizzy send me your email address for high resolution photos.