I swiped this picture from:
http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog/35631614.html
More pictures can be found there.
Tim
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8 comments:
One of the best wave soaring stories, ever, is "Down the Cascade Range on a Wild Winter Wind" published in Soaring in April 1969. The flight starts out in 25-knot lift in the Mt. Rainier primary. I have the magazine if anyone wants to read it.
When is SSA going to digitise the entire Soaring magazine collection? The hang glider people did theirs years ago. Damn shame a bunch hippy hangglider pilots are more productive than us.
I think that story was reprinted in the same issue as some PMSC member recounted one of the best wave days in encampment history. The Gorham story is fantastic but paled when compared to the "Wild Winds" piece. If I've given the wrong info about the reprint title, the issue is worth the read. After the anemic wave at this year's camp, the Gorham story will have us thinking about making some sacrifice to the wave gods.
Digitization project is said to be ongoing. Donate to the Eagle fund (SSA) if you'd like to help.
Cecil somebody, right? Didn't he fly an LK-10 and end up getting a helicopter retrieve from Crater Lake?
-T8
PS: I have one of Allan Mac's articles -- when I get power back into my home office (six days now!), I'll scan that and make it available if someone wants to put it on the PMSC or Mt Wash web site.
Hey Rick, I would like to read it. I can make copies if others would like it.
Tim
Kevin, you're thinking of "Flawed Diamond" by Doug Lamont, republished in October 2001, in the same issue as that other wave article, by the guy whose name escapes me.
Evan, you are correct. Your memory goes back pretty far for a youngster.
Here's the complete citation:
"Down the Cascade Range on a Wild Winter Wind" by Cecil M. Craig with Marion Barritt, Soaring, April 1969 p10.
It's also the cover picture for that issue.
I just reread the article. In addition to being a great story, it has some interesting anachronisms. The floor of Positive Control was 24000 feet, and the author had to explain what a snowmobile was.
This article was published back when glider pilots were real men, authors were literate, and editors weren't shy about publishing a 10,000-word story with lots of pictures.
It is definitely one of the top three Soaring Magazine articles. Ever.
Great. Now there are two known wave pieces trumping that poor PMSC pilot/writer wanna-be. The guy writes okay' now if he'd only learn to fly proper cross country.
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