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We had a great flight, I was strafing them and doing formation, then went and landed, me and Larry did the catch!!!! I was the one that named Dave The Floating Head.....and it stuck!

@@chrisdrake7849 Twisted? Sensor strafer? Wow. Dog days flashback... That is so cool that you and Larry were down in the North field to catch. Watching the launch from about 10 feet behind and to the right, I saw that it was a real challenge to help get Dave and Scott off the hill safely. It was amazing to watch, as everyone was perfect in lifting Scott's added weight to launch that glider and literally throwing him and Dave off... and Dave dun good. Didn't miss a step.

Great times!@@logmeindangit

Who is the strafer pilot?

A nice reward might have been to go through town, hit the river just outside town, and cool down in it. Glad you didn't lose your brakes on the switchbacks.

What a beautiful place to have spent part of your childhood. It sure was tucked down in there, though. Made me wonder about how late the sun was able to shine down on the town, and how soon it was gone behind the hills to the west. Probably a great thing in mid-summer, but you miss out on sunrises and sunsets being in a "slot" like that. I cracked up when I found and watched a TH-cam video that portrayed the town as a very beer-loving place. OK, I'll say it. It made it look like a haven for laid-back low key drunks... But when I drove down the winding road and then through town, I was curious about what it would be like to live there. I live in the country already, a half-day's drive NW from there.

logmeindangit Well you have to realize it was 50 years ago when I lived there. There were three churches and just as many bars. There was still a sawmill and timber industry in the area. The locals thought nothing of digging up Indian graves for artifacts, poaching wildlife to keep fresh meat in the house, and most the town was related to each other. My mom was horrified that there were still homes with only outhouses and homes with only cold hand pumped water from the well. We did have those conveniences though in our home. To make phone calls we went to the downtown home with the switch board. I think the entire town was on the same party line. Mom wasn't too happy to find out the company house we lived in had a cesspool and not a septic tank when the boards over it collapsed one summer. As kids we loved it though, spending hours riding our horses and playing in the creek or swimming at the local swimming hole on the river. Our folks took us in a jeep into areas I later as an adult explored on foot and horseback now part of the Idaho primitive area. Culturally not a place I'd take up residence at this stage of my life, but still a hub to some beautiful natural resources. Mom always said the town was at least 50 years in the past. Guess that might still be true all these years later. At the top of the hill with the biggest, steepest drop several cars, trucks and vans went over the edge killing the occupants. I always wondered about the homestead at the base of that part of the road and how they dealt with so many rigs tumbling down into the pastures of that canyon.

+showdown2012 This was a couple weeks ago. Power was off in my neighborhood for a day and a half. The crews were fast to buck up the blown-down trees in the area, and I found out later that three poles were snapped off like twigs just down the street. The power crew was fast when they got to us the next day, and stuck 3 new poles in the ground then got all the wires hooked back up.

+logmeindangit Wow my power was also off for 1.5 day (32 hours). Where I live Couple of power wire were down and they had to fix it. Where do you live at?

water_skipper You are! Right here on TH-cam! There's going to be more flying this weekend, at the east end of Riffe Lake in southern WA. Check it out. Go tent-camping. The weather will be perfect! Unfortunately, the lake level rose too fast this year, and the alternate landing field will be used, a field just north of the hill. From late August through most of April though, the end of the lake reveals a huge flat area that's great for camping and landing.

logmeindangit I'm definitely considering it. What hours? Like just at dawn, around noon, all day, or what? I'd hate to drive all the way there and find out I was ten minutes too late.

water_skipper They'll be there all day long, from around 10-11AM until dinner-time, all weekend, if the breezes are anything from SW to west to north. Just GO! Saturday and Sunday this weekend! This is at the east end of Riffe Lake, on Kosmos Road. Go from Portland north to Highway 12, then east to Elbe, then south to Morton, (go slowly through Morton, they love to ticket! then east about 5 miles, then south onto Kosmos Road. If you need to rent camping, or a shower, look up Taidnapam campground. They rent camping areas and have coin-op showers. Taidnapam campground is just south of the mountain by less than a half-mile. As you drive around the base of the mountain, you'll see a dirt road Y on the left. That's where people with gliders on their trucks will be coming and going. That rod has a locked gate. Stop and ask someone to be a driver or a passenger. Bring a camera!

water_skipper www.google.com/maps/dir/Portland,+OR/46.4821221,-122.1723754/@46.7137777,-120.0268399,7z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x54950b0b7da97427:0x1c36b9e6f6d18591!2m2!1d-122.6764816!2d45.5230622!1m0

water_skipper You might even get to hook up with them for the potluck dinner Saturday evening. Bring a little cash, because they can always use it to defray the cost of the food. Last year, dinner was $5. This is a fund-raiser to keep the site operational.

Any windnoise is better than music. Good clip, as if I was there, and that 's the purpose.