5th annual Slope soaring meet @ Glacier Ridge Colorado

[Tonar]

Well another meet this year, but mother nature was throwing all she had at us to make this year extreme.

we still got some flying in and I won a few things in the raffle

On the way Up to the ridge

What month is this?? Middle August??

Sure, I'll give it a shot... If you go first

But I couldn't make it and I got stuck on a rock and had to get pulled off

[GreyKnight]

Cool vid Tonar, very impressive scenery!

You should of went to the Olympics... EXTREME SLOPE SOARING!

[Streak]

Way cool.

The weather reminds me of a scary outing I had once.

I had my RC air boat out at the lake one day & a couple other guys showed-up to fly planes. A thunder storm rolled in on us while we were standing on the wet sand.

Suddenly all of our antennas started popping & cracking from the electricity in the air. I quickly brought my boat in & shut it all down & so did one of the flyers. The other flyer couldn't get his plane down as fast though & actually started getting shocked every 5-10 seconds through the controller during the last minute or so of getting his plane down. Even the radio & CB antennas on my truck were popping. Needless to say, we all got the heck outa there quick at that point.

Edited to add a pic of my toy.

[Tonar]

cool prop powered boat!!

[Streak]

Yep, the things almost to fast for my own good.

I started out with a nice Carl Goldberg low wing aerobatic plane & after a few wrecks I decided not to keep throwing money into fixing it. So I bought a boat that I could transfer everything into.

The boat was only designed for a .20-.25 motor, but with some redneck ingenuity & some lead weights on the front to rebalance it.... I got my .61 motor on that sucker.

BTW. That's some awesome scenery where you get to fly. Just frigg'n beautiful.

[Shayd]

Take those pictures back, we are in a global warming cycle don't you know!! You photoshopped those!!