Yah; It's not something that we talk about at the January 1st club breakfast, but the clanking sounds like something between the sound of a cowbell and one of those little triangles that would muster cowboys for dinner in the old west. In other words, when breakfast is ready, we hand Ron a hula-hoop and after a minute of his starting the hoola-ing, all the glider pilots start migrating towards the clubhouse for some reason....

It is really a fantastic flight.
There are a few members up here that really push out into the Cascades, often sharing pictures from the middle of that range that are just amazing. We are a lucky group to have that kind of scenery up here...but it is earned. Tolls for entry have been paid by all of those guys. Ron has 35 years of soaring under his belt. Fred probably has 45. Brad probably has 25 or 30.

Anyway, I keep throwing change at the toll-collector and he lets me take a peek every now and then. That, along with the pictures these guys share back, and the traces and stories they share, really keep the club's enthusiasm up for the North Cascades Mountains flying in this part of the country.
~Travis
7U





On Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:06:41 PM UTC-7, John Carlyle wrote:
I'd call that a double through-ing, not a crossing! Very impressive in IGC Flight Replay. However, I think Mr. Clark has huge, clanging brass ones.



-John, Q3