My foremost thanks go to Ruth, who has been so generous as to 'let me go' on this trip for almost 6 weeks!!
Then also to my friend Andy for coming along and 'keeping an eye on me' - preventing me from making some stupid mistakes ;-)
Then of course to my guides and drivers: Stacy/ Aaron/ Talyor/ Mike and Kari - without them such a trip would have been virtually impossible! But besides driving/ guiding they all have been great company and told us many things about the US, which you'd normally not get to know on a 'standard' trip.
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| (PS: it should read Chalk Bluffs iso Chuck Bluffs - sorry) |
Sites flown / (visited)
Lookout -at Golden / Boulder
Mt.Princeton / Whale Hill / Villa Grove
Aspen / Lookout -at Glenwood / Roan / Skinny Ridge/ (Gran Mesa) / HLF
Dinosaur
Cove / Monroe / Mt.Edna / (Junction) / (Uranium)
Pajute / Gunthers / Flynns / Chalk Bluffs / McGee / (Mammoth Mtn)
(Alabama Hills) / (Walts Pt. aka Horseshoe)
Marshall / (Elsinore)
notable visits
Cove Mtn
Bryce Canyon NP / Devils Garden / Hole in the Rock / Devils Backbone
Mono Lake / Bodie
Horseshoe Meadows / Tehachapi Loop / Mojave Airport
some numbers
sites flown: 20 number of flts: 37
> unfortunately -as can be seen in the schedule above- there have been quite a big number of unflyable days (13: due wind/ wx). This of course has greatly reduced the number of sites we could fly - but luckily in the US there is no shortage of sights/ places to visit in such a case; and really 'bad' weather -like rain/ fog- we had only on 3 days...
distance driven (approx): >5000 mi/ >8000 km
A word about my wing: Profly Leeloo (XL): the longer I fly these (!) wings, the more I like them: I can't even remember if there has been a major collapse during the whole trip! With my first Leeloo I have now made more than 165 flts (since 8.4.21) - but especially on this trip the wing has taken quite a beating...
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