Great story on OPB

OPB did a great story on the Willamette Valley Soaring Club's annual Safari to the SE corner of Oregon.
http://www.opb.org/television/progra...lvord-gliders/

Boggs

On Friday, 19 February 2016 05:58:14 UTC+2, Waveguru wrote:
OPB did a great story on the Willamette Valley Soaring Club's annual Safari to the SE corner of Oregon.
http://www.opb.org/television/progra...lvord-gliders/

Boggs

Looks like a lot of fun with awesome views.

The grizzly, old dude looks like quite a character.
"This is the best way to get high. I know, I lived through the sixties."

Thanks for sharing.

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7:58:14 PM UTC-8, Waveguru wrote:
OPB did a great story on the Willamette Valley Soaring Club's annual Safari to the SE corner of Oregon.
http://www.opb.org/television/progra...lvord-gliders/

Boggs

I remember a story of a pilot who went west from the Alvord to Lakeview and landed out and had to call a passing airliner to give his ground crew his location even then it was a good days driving the back roads or no roads to find him.... he was finally found living with a cute female Antelope. He almost stayed right there in the high desert..

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:58:14 PM UTC-5, Waveguru wrote:
OPB did a great story on the Willamette Valley Soaring Club's annual Safari to the SE corner of Oregon.
http://www.opb.org/television/progra...lvord-gliders/

Boggs

Great link, thanks for sharing.

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:58:14 PM UTC-5, Waveguru wrote:
OPB did a great story on the Willamette Valley Soaring Club's annual Safari to the SE corner of Oregon.
http://www.opb.org/television/progra...lvord-gliders/

Boggs

that's so damn cool. i'd love to fly there, very beautiful...but where the hell do you land out??

There are other dry lakes in the area and some landable roads and actually some fields too. As the above post alludes to, the retrieves can be long sometimes tho. When the airliner relayed the message back to my buddies at the Alvord from 30,000ft, they didn't specify who they were calling and friends all over the entire state started arranging retrieve crews! They figured it out before the actually hit the road. There are vast, uninhabited areas out here in the west and not much cell coverage for long distances.

I still get Christmas cards from that friendly antelope...

Boggs