Recent Posts Tagged With '2009 west coast paragliding championship'

• WCPC Day 6 - Task 6

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 19:06 in results, character building, wcpc, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  Today we met at WCPC HQ under broken cloud layers similar to those of previous mornings. The forecast called for clearing with more North West winds than on previous days. We were joined by 15 kids from the local elementary school who rode to launch...

• WCPC Day 5 - Task Canceled due to winds

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 14:11 in woodrat, wcpc, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  Click on photos for larger versionWe met at WCPC-HQ at 9AM while rain fell under overcast skies. Jeff Huey (Safety Director)talked a bit about safety and, I think we've coined a new moniker for his position - "Director of Danger" ;-) We met Lucas,...

• WCPC Day 4 - Task Canceled - Due to O.D. (again)

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 16:11 in results, woodrat, west coast paragliding championship, wcpc, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  Click on photos for larger versionWhen we arrived at launch the skies looked good in three quadrants. The view to the South of launch indicated we were destined to have large dark clouds early in the day however. The task was a 34Km flight from Woo...

• WCPC Day 2 - Task 2

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 19:04 in woodrat, west coast paragliding championship, wcpc, gradient avax xc2, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  CLICK ON ALL PHOTOS TO SEE LARGER VERSIONThe task today was another great task. I think this may have been the most 'FUN' task that I've ever flown here - and that's after flying many comps and making goal - which I didn't do today.Only one pilot (M...

• WCPC Day 1 - Task 1

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 21:24 in wcpc, gradient avax xc2, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  The day started with a pilot meeting at 9AM where we firmed up some of the technical issues such as min. distance, nominal dist. and time, criteria for scoring stopped tasks, etc. The WCPC is a small field this year with only a few more than 40 pilo...

• WCPC - Practice Day 2

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 00:21 in paragliding, avax xc2, woodrat, west coast paragliding championship, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  Today looked unstable early and we all new it would over-develop before the day was done. The cell above was 20 miles East of us, near Medford, and it was late in the day before any over-development affected the Ruch area. I launched early again tod...

• Woodrat Practice Day 1

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 18:40 in woodrat, wcpc, gradient avax xc2, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  Today was a great day in the Applegate Valley. I met up with Andy Palmer, Rob Sporrer, Nick Greece, and Matt Beechinor at the LZ. Tim drove us to launch and it looked good with cumulus clouds popping all around us. A couple students were in the air...

• Dipshit

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 12:55 in woodrat, wcpc, gradient avax xc2, 2009 west coast paragliding championship

  As in, "Tim can be a dipshit at times!" - I hope the reference isn't the 'despicable' definition!I just returned from a working trip to Sydney and am preparing to head North to the WCPC (West Coast Paragliding Championships) in Ruch, Oregon. ...