Grizzly, Saddle Mountain (OR)

Sat: knowing that we had to drive around 600km today, we left Prineville early. But already after less than 10min we saw this nice mountain. Stacy knew that it had a launch on top, so (of course) we had to drive up to explore.

Stacy on Grizzly, looking South

Stacy landing

Stacy landed near the road and was greeted by Charlene, Charles and their kids, who had wanted to know what kind of 'contraption' Stacy was flying. They welcomed us to land in there if ever we would fly here again - thanks!

wheat fields in northern OR

Then we continued north across endless cropfields, across the Columbia River into Washington state.

With winds out of the West, we knew there was another flying site along the way: Saddle Mountain, on the Columbia River. So we went exploring again.

Launch overlooking Columbia River near Wanapum dam (right)

Andy launching

We needed to drive around a while to find a suitable launch, but in the end, Andy was launching into pretty strong winds. On landing the winds had increased even further, so he was flying backwards...
Today I declined to fly: in Grizzly there was very little wind on a flat, rather stony slope; in Saddle it was too strong for me - even Stacy didn't launch in the end.

Sunset in Wenatchee (where we stayed for the night)

A video by Andy about flying Saddle can be found here.