Ultimate soaring challenges or adventures

My dream flights:

1000 km Grand Slam: 1) Thermal (done) 2) Wave 3) Appalachian
ridge (ideally, a non-lite O&R) 4) 1000 km FAI legal triangle

1250 km FAI triangle in the -20

1500 km in wave

Ely - Grand Canyon Airport - Ely

Tehachapi - Parowan via Tonopah or reverse

Tehachapi - Twin Falls

Gliderport Hopping: Tehachapi - Minden - Ely - Parowan - Cedar City -
Driggs

Tehachapi - Ely - Parowan - Durango -
Teluride - Salida - Owl Canyon

On Nov 9, 5:28*am, nimbusgb wrote:
I am looking to compile a list of 'The Ultimate Soaring Adventures'.
I'd
appreciate any input from the forum on what they see as the pinnacle
of
soaring whether it is a 1000km task, flying New Zealands wave or some
other goal that may be beyond the day-to-day pilots reach.

I'll put up a list on a website once I get some input.

There is only ONE ultimate challenge... 1000K in a Grunau Baby!!

Ok maybe two, I left out getting me in a PW5 again.

Al

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There is only ONE ultimate challenge... 1000K in a Grunau Baby!!

Ok maybe two, I left out getting me in a PW5 again.

What about 50k in a primary?

--
Surfer!

In the "Sun Ship Game", the camera is pointing at the pilots in the morning
meeting as that task is announced, and shock or disbelief is evident on many
faces, including George's. In 1969, it was by far the longest assigned speed
task ever called in America (and probably the world). In 1991, it was just
an average task for the predicted good soaring weather, and we took it in
stride. That is quite a testament to the huge improvement in sailplane
performance during the intervening 22 years.


Still one of my favorite parts of the movie is the guy getting in his
glider and crying out for help.

"I dont want to go..."

50K in a primary would be fun...

I'm reminded that it's been suggested that a non stop flight from
California via wave to the front range of CO could then hook up with
plains thermals for a landing in the midwest.

Another great soaring experience (which might be required on the above
mentioned flight) is to spend a night parked in wave. While in NZ I
heard talk of an ultimate distance flight where a long north and south
island wave flight would be followed the next day by a repeat
performance after spending the night parked at altitude somewhere in
range of a nice lighted airport. Can you imagine anything more like a
flight in a Gemini spacecraft? Fantastic.

My original list that I call my "Seven Tasks" a

Wave XC (Sierra, Andes and NZ), Sierra only done
Appalachian ridge run XC
The Morning Glory
The Grand Canyon (done)
The Alps (done)
Namibia
Santa Barbara diamond climb in wave from near sea level

and I've recently added 1000Km straight out from Williams, California

Kemp

One of the adventures I'd like to try is the flight described in John
Joss' book "Sierra, Sierra" from Port Angeles, Washington to Yuma,
Arizona.

Hopping the wave from Mount Olympus to Ranier, Adams, Hood, Jefferson,
Sisters, Diamond, Scott (Crater Lake), McLaughlin, Shasta, Lassen, and
onto the Eastern edge of the Sierras. Maximum altitude climb at
Whitney and downwind glide into Arizona.

From the northern border of the US to the southern. Start at Sunrise
and end at dusk.