Saturday we joined Sarah, Mike, and family for an afternoon of rock climbing. The point was time with friends, not hard climbing, so we picked a small out of the way crag — Schist Creek in Russell Forest. The climbs were short, but not quite short enough to use one rope on two climbs. Sarah […]
1,400 feet per minute up! In a glider. That’s as fast as the Bearhawk can climb. Just a moment before my elevator ride, I had been facing the solid green flank of Mt Lafayette. This was way better than I had expected for the day. Earlier that week, the wind was forecast from the west […]
We have been doing a bunch of fun things, but I am not keeping up with the posts. For now, I have some photos uploaded Emilie hiked Mt Avalon, Field, and Tom The whole family hiked Bald Peak and then Lafayette via Greenleaf trail Franconia gliding day 1 and Franconia ridge soaring
Tyson had picked out a hike in the Belknap range, but then we woke up to rain. According to the radar, more rain was coming up from southwestern Massachusetts and heading in the direction of central New Hampshire. Undeterred, I pulled out my maps and guidebooks. Eastern Massachusetts might stay dry. Tyson and I ended […]
I enjoy group fly outs to small grass fields. Gliding turns out to be no exception. After a day flying with the other glider pilots, I was content ending my silver distance attempt watching butterflies dance in the goldenrod and puffy white cumulus clouds amble across a perfect blue sky. A few weeks ago, I […]
The forecasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday kept changing. I was looking for an opportunity to complete my FAI Silver Badge for soaring with a 50 km flight. The requirement is to get anywhere that is at least 50 km away from both the point of takeoff and the point of release from the tow […]
All three of us hiked up to Fanconia Falls on Thursday as a fun family event before Isaac went off to summer camp. The hike is 3.5 miles each way, mostly on a wide, gravel railroad grade. Isaac was really excited to show me the deep kettle hole and a wide slide down into a […]
Friday morning, we were ahead of schedule for dropping Isaac off at camp, and the road ahead was closed for a traffic accident. So we detoured to a hiking spot just east of Bath Maine. Squirrel Point in Arrowsic Maine. According to the internet, it’s 4.4 miles to hike both to Bald Point and to […]