Bills Labor Day

Post by **XCanytime** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:27 pm

Anybody thinking about Bills on Labor Day?

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Post by **tomceunen** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:35 pm

yes, the PG but we want to wait till tomorrow morning to be sure the east wind will be settled at noon for at least a couple of hours
I see conflicting weather reports....
tom

Post by **XCanytime** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:57 pm

Tom,
???? The surface pressure map looks good in the PM.? Isobars are curving east to ESE.

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Post by **tomceunen** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:21 pm

thanks, your are right
We are planning to arrive around noon.
See you
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Tom

Marcel Dettling · Post by **Marcel Dettling** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:36 pm

We just got back from a 2 weeks trip in the Rockies. Flying Bills Hill tomorrow sounds very tempting. If it looks good, I'm in.

Cheers,

Marcel

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Post by **markc** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:19 am

Looking a little light for us hangies... Not sure I want to
spend $50-60 on gas given the forecasts I see. But I'm
still lookin' at it...

--mark c.

Post by **tomceunen** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:58 pm

http://members.cox.net/ximenaandtom/Bil ... index.html

worth to spent the gas I believe, what a day....

Cheers
Tom

Whole week looks similar , bwaah ...

Marcel Dettling · Post by **Marcel Dettling** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:31 pm

Thanks for the pictures, Tom!

For PGers, it was indeed a fantastic day, with cloudbase at 6500 ASL. Let me add some more details: Tom, Juanito, Mark, Stephane and I all had multiple flights, toplandings, etc. I think it's noteworthy to mention that Juan went over the back for the first (?) downwind PG cross country flight from Bills Hill. He got to the township of Roaring Springs, about 23 miles straight line distance from launch. As you can see on the pictures, Tom flew XC through the entire valley in front of launch, an excellent flight & foto tour.

There were also a 4 HG pilots showing up. Bacil didn't like the light conditions on launch and left without a flight. Doug and JR had sledrides, whereas Mark had a better flight and was seen above launch.

Indeed very much worth the money. Especially, if you carpool

Cheers,

Marcel

Post by **hepcat1989** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:36 am

Great shots! I was able to soar one time at Bill's in a hg. It was good to see that everyone dug their spoons into a big heaping bowl of CLOUD BASE! Wow!, what a day for you guys! Shawn.

dhenders · Post by **dhenders** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:12 am

Tom and Juan were a lot of fun to watch. It was an interesting day. It was a little light for the hang gliders but flyable and probably would have been soarable if we had gotenoff earlier.

Post by **mcelrah** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:06 pm

Wow - great shots. PG rocks! - Hugh

On 5 Sep 2005, at 21:58, tomceunen wrote:

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> http://members.cox.net/ximenaandtom/Bil ... index.html
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> worth to spent the gas I believe, what a day....
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> Cheers
> Tom
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> Whole week looks similar , bwaah ...
>

Spark · Post by **Spark** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:51 am

On Tuesday, I flew Bills twice in the afternoon (on the PG). I had my camera, but never got high enough to take any pictures. Winds were never more than about 7mph on launch, mostly 4.

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