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A Stolen Afternoon to Yosemite
I took the afternoon off work today to fly my old Libelle. I left work at
1245, assembled my glider, and took off from the Bishop Airport behind Hangar One's Husky at 1330. There was strong lift on tow and I released in a good thermal that took me to over 13,000 feet. I flew north up the Whites approaching 16,000 feet near White Mountain Peak. There were a few scraps of cloud along the Whites. I left the north end of the Whites at about 15,000 feet at Montgomery Peak and flew on toward the east shore of Mono Lake toward some scraps of clouds there. At the north end of Adobe Valley I was down to about 12,000 feet but climbed back to about 15,000 feet and headed west toward Tuolumne Meadows. Near Bloody Pass I neared cloudbase and my highpoint of the flight. From high over the crest of the Sierra I had good radio reception and listening on 123.3 megahertz noted that many around central California seemed to be having fun this day. On pilot flying south along the White Mountains at about this time had it right when he said he could hear his flying partner but between the pilots flying at 13,000 feet on the California coast and those flying in Colorado he had a hard time picking out his partner's voice. The flying on the coast sounded especially intriguing to me because I almost only fly over deserts and mountains. I flew northwest over Yosemite from good cloud to good cloud and got to what felt like near Hechy Hechy reservoir though it was certainly several miles short. Right at 1530 I turned back toward Bishop and only circled once the whole way back to Bishop flying down the west side of the Sierra Crest. I landed at 1630, put the glider back in the trailer, and double parked in time to pick up my kids from day care at 1700 on the nose. |
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