Finally! Back in the Air!!!

Today's 19 weeks since I stalled a landing and dislocated my right arm at the shoulder. Been feeling for a while now that I was ready to get back into the air, but today it really happened, and it was sheer bliss. Nina Simone's, "Wild is the Wind" seemed just the thing for such ecstasy. Thanks, Trey, for going up there with me, and starting both cameras for me. You're the best!

Coast Ridge Flight of 10 2 10

This was really one of my all-time best flights! Rising air everywhere I turned - real bliss -

Soaring with Trey from the Knob 9 21 10

It was a perfectly beautiful day at Pacific Valley, and the conditions were perfect, too! I asked Trey to turn my video camera on and then launched into a nice breeze coming up the hill. Found some workable lift about half way down - played in that for a while and then went over to set up a landing. I looked up and saw Trey circling, still very high up in front of the ridge, and he might have stayed up there all day, 'cept he had an appointment to keep, so came down about 45 minutes later! And we met Hugh from D.C. in the LZ, and gave him a ride up, and watched him launch his paraglider. And he was still soaring 45 minutes later when we got back to the highway! What a day!

Coast Ridge Road on a Gorgeous Day!

It was like a windless day, on the mountain top, but the sweetest thermals were everywhere! And I thought I was getting a video of it, but it turned out to be one still image! Stay tuned - bound to get it right next time!

Plaskett Ridge- Bliss!

Clear skies, and a beautiful wind blowing up the hill at The Knob - several hawks were out showing me where the thermals were - great flight!

A Window Through the Fog

Sat up on top of Wild Cattle until I could see a little ocean down around Sand Dollar, and launched. Sure glad that small window stayed open for me until I got there!

A Window Through the Fog from Peter Rosen on Vimeo.

Pacific valley Flight 3 28 10

It was another gloriously beautiful day on the coast, and there were a million pilots flying from Wild Cattle, but I was the only one on Plaskett - we all met in the LZ and everybody had a blast.