Lake Elsinore strip under wing barely visible...it was early.
On the way to Hemet , CA we see Lake Perris and san Bernardino in the haze
Hemet being irradiated through the hle in the clound
San Bernardino and the Cajon Pass ahead
That "saddle" bump on the mountain is where Home base resides....easy to find
Cajon Pass ahead below with highways leading up it
My iPAQ 310 GPS Navigator (PNA) with XCSoar moving map aviation software loaded and running in place of the normal Nav software...nice and bright only $150 + free XCSoar.
Doing 77 kts with Crystal soaring strip in Llano, Ca up by the green patches
Rosamond Airport where I turn to head up the Owens Valley
Beginning the Owens Valley with Tehachapi on the left
A pair of F-22 Raptors zipping by according to Joshua center radar controller....no I didn't see them either but he mentioned my location to them so they could avoid me.
Lone Pine airport refueling stop dead ahead...but its not that light colored strip as I thought...it was next to the 395 highway on the left about a mile from there....ooops.
Lone Pine Airport
Mamoth airport on left
Mono Lake ahead
Mono Lake
Topaz Lake
Minden valley ahead 45 miles in haze. This was the highest ridge that I had to clear at 6800' MSL with me at 1500 AGL
Minden/Tahoe airport 400 miles from home base and 5.5 hours later. Lake Tahoe beyond ridge
Lake Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe
Lambada
Ximango
Mine and Richards Grob 109's left and Taifun on right
We had 17 participants at the fly-in listening to lectures on weather Wave etc in SoaringNV.com hanger. They threw us an awesome BBQ. Thanks Fred and Lori !
Doug Armstrong Meteorologist extraordinaire making sense of all the numbers for us.
