Another weekend of slayin' it in the Bay Area flying scene has come and gone.
Saturday, ACP's Brian Foster and Tom Low and I flew Windy Hill for extended sledders and burgers and beer at Alice's Restaurant on Skyline...The Flying Canuck was kind enough to drive for us as he didn't have his paperwork completed. So, the four of us enjoyed hanging out and discussing various methods of piling in if one were to box himself into a tall grove of redwood trees along Skyline Road. ACP Tom was convinced he could pull off what I call the "Don Garlit's drag racing maneuver" whereby one keeps his chute in hand, then releases it at the last second for a drag racing chute deployment. Tom claims this has worked once for him, but that it is a method that requires practice. Brian on the other hand felt a safer method would be to deploy one's chute from about 100-feet up, then hope for the best as he floated down amongst the tall redwood trees. The Canuck and I felt an even safer method would be to not fly into the redwood trees to begin with, but that is still up for debate.
Sunday, the ACP's made the best of pre-shear, post-crap winds at Funston. The goal, apparently, was to launch and try to top land. I missed that memo and thought everyone had decided to land on the beach, so I led the way. ACP's Brian and Diver Dave helped me carry up as the party moved to the launch area instead of the beach.
All was good and the quesadilla and beer tasted great afterward.
Cheers!