US'16 0614 - Point of the Mountain, West Mountain

Due tio the 8 hours time difference to Switzerland, Andy and I have been awake early here anyway. Stacy had driven up from his home in Richfield and was awaiting us at the hotel at 0530.
So at 0715 we were ready to fly at 'the Point' (aka PotM) - South side. The wind was pretty stong: at least 25kmh, so I decided not to launch from the TOP, but walked down about 1/4 of the hight. Here I was able to reverse launch without any problems :-))
Andy instead decided to make some fighs with Stacy's speedwing, a Little Cloud 'Spiruline XL', which he actually really liked.

PotM south side - looking towards Utah lake

This huge building complex is the NSA data center - where all of our data are stored and evaluated...

...she (9 years old)  groundhandles much better than many 'grown ups' - a real pleasure watching her...

wheelchair tandem flight

Stacy, Mike and Andy (Mike will be guiding us for the next 3 days)

Also nearby is the really huge Utah State Prison, run by UCI (Utah Correctional Industries - the name says it all). We had breakfast at the 'serving time café', a small restaurant run by woman inmates who are about to be released from prison and have 'behaved well'...

Afterwards we had to organize a couple of things, like filling up my O2-bottle - thanks Bill (Bellcourt) for the free refill!, get water, ice etc, so when we finally got to West Mountain, the wind was blowing too strong (as it still did at 2000 in the evening at the Point: so the rest of the day was blown out. But still a great start for our trip!

West Mountain: pano looking north over Utah lake: far left: Lake Mtn, then PotM