wrote:
Gunnar wrote:

I feel the need to go down wind. Maybe later this week, before things
start getting weaker. I would just like to make it to McCook where I
saw my first glider.


Gunnar

Man McCook was quite the hotbed back in the day so I hear. It's the
freeking middle of knowhere from any other perspective. Ah, the high
plains... They call to me with their high cloudbases and dryline
tornados...

I met Fred Herr here in Ames Iowa a couple years ago. He apparently
started or ran the Owl Canyon site back in the 60s and was a long time
front range DPE. I expect you knew him perhaps. Anyway, he told me a
story of starting in the wave early AM over Boulder, making it into
thermals in eastern CO and being carried by a T-storm all the way to
Hastings NE in a K6. That's one awesome downwind dash!

I'm hoping Gorden Boetger or another of the new age wave pioneers will
make it all the way to Iowa someday. Hell, you could do it and so
could Bob W. Screw it, who needs to make a living after all. You are
dead a long time!

MM
Fred built Owl Canyon, then Waverly West Soaring Ranch, after moving it
east from Waverly. Fred stills flies frequently at 79 or perhaps now
80. He had a nice flight in the CSA LS-4a a few days back. He still
takes the occassional winch launch also. He spoke of his three
diamonds in his K-6CR at last year's Colorado Governor's Seminar.

Fred's life story is very interesting.

Gunnar was my predecessor, once removed, as SSA Colorado governor, and
a good example of how to do it.

Frank Whiteley