Does anyone know what the LZ situation at Jack's is? Open/closed? How much is not in crop?
Can't say that the under-10 weekend forecast is motivating me for the long drive.... But ya never know, so I was wondering about the primary.
MarkC
Jack's Mtn : Status of the LZ?
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Re: Jack's Mtn : Status of the LZ?
From the Hyner forum/list serv:
Dennis, Spoons and I were at Jacks today. There is some good news and some bad news. The good news is the top of Jacks is mowed well. If the wind is in you can definitely take off safely. If there is very little wind there is another problem: some of the weed trees down front have gotten tall enough that there is far less swoopability than in the past few years. The real trees are not the problem, its the sumac about 50 to 70 feet down that are the problem, and it will take another day of choppin to get them. That brings me to the real bad news. why bother because the whole valley as far as the eye can see is almost entirely in corn. Our regular LZ has 2 narrow strips of what looks like uncut alfalfa. Plus a lot of farmers are growing soybeans which can look like alfalfa if your a half mile away. I saw only 1 strip of cut alfalfa running sw to ne. and 1 strip of pasteur which has had cows in it bout every time I looked. I have to add that the pasture was 3 times the distance of the regular LZ, and it has an electric fence around it. So I cant recomend Jacks until October.
Dennis, Spoons and I were at Jacks today. There is some good news and some bad news. The good news is the top of Jacks is mowed well. If the wind is in you can definitely take off safely. If there is very little wind there is another problem: some of the weed trees down front have gotten tall enough that there is far less swoopability than in the past few years. The real trees are not the problem, its the sumac about 50 to 70 feet down that are the problem, and it will take another day of choppin to get them. That brings me to the real bad news. why bother because the whole valley as far as the eye can see is almost entirely in corn. Our regular LZ has 2 narrow strips of what looks like uncut alfalfa. Plus a lot of farmers are growing soybeans which can look like alfalfa if your a half mile away. I saw only 1 strip of cut alfalfa running sw to ne. and 1 strip of pasteur which has had cows in it bout every time I looked. I have to add that the pasture was 3 times the distance of the regular LZ, and it has an electric fence around it. So I cant recomend Jacks until October.
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