Blanchard Weekend Soaring
Posted by admin on October 20th, 2008 filed in Washington, handgliding, paragliding
I called Matt on Friday and we talked about options, but the forecast didn’t look good anywhere. He sent a message via facebook later in the evening which summarized read “Tiger or Bust, probably Bust”. Thus I spent Friday evening packing for a short backpacking trip.
Saturday morning opened on the east side of the Cascades with gust front moving through the valley and tree tops were bent over. Matt called me and said “What about Baldy?” Nope that’s a no-go. “Ok, how about Blanchard, it might work?”
Thirty minutes later I’m in Fun Truck making my way west. Showed up at Matt’s place, consolidated into his rig and picked up Gilead. An hour plus later we were scouting Blanchard in building conditions and a cross launch.
Matt and Gilead were off the hill first and both of them were spanked as they headed into the cross wind. I brought up and launched, but didn’t protect my right wing (north side) and got tipped down wind and lost a lot of altitude. When I recovered I was near the lee side of the hill and half way down so I gave up and went to land. Oops!
Landing was into west-north-west and strong. I had to hit speed bar because I set up final too deep, but I had plenty of time to make it back into the field. First time at Blanchard taken care of.
I rode up with Ralph, Vinay, and Ashley. Second launch went much better although I tripped and almost botched it. I was ready for the right side wack this time and weight shifted into it. This had me pointed the right direction and stable.
Ashley and Ralph were airborne and soaring the north ridge. It was bumpy in places, but enjoyable. Thermals were blone out so we had to turn a lot. Thirty plus minutes later and a pretty good asymetric collapse later I followed Ralph back around the corner to the LZ. Fun times.
Landing went well. Gilead and I packed and then Matt landed spiral style. He brought beer, clank clank, in his harness from above. Sweet day at a new site
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