Sunday, 9 September 2018

Salt Lake to Hailey (ID); Sky Ridge

Travel Day: Mike picked us up at 0730 for the drive north to Hailey (Sun Valley).


With only one break for fuel and breakfast we drove across the vast lands of Idaho. It's either nothing at all or farmland. Also it was very windy with too much wind forcasted for Sun Valley.
This was confirmed after Mike had called Chuck who operates a tandem company in Sun Valley.
But he also told us that tomorrow morning should allow 1 maybe even 2 flights; so we'll meet him at 0730 for a ride up Mt.Baldy in his truck, for a possible second flight we can then take the gondola.

As we had almost the whole afternoon to spent we went exoploring 'Sky ridge', a site near Hailey.
We didn't drive all the way up to launch as the track  is not in very good shape in different places...

looking at Sky Ridge
Sky Ridge is a rather seldom flown late afternoon soaring site (probably due to ots access)

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