Bears at Dickey Ridge

stevek · Post by **stevek** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:18 pm

Spark and I flew Dickey Ridge today. Spark had landed his paraglider and I was yo yoing between 100 and 400 over when I saw 4 bears climbing up onto the Drive just below launch. There were two large ones and two small ones.-- Mom Dad and the kids I assume. They just started walking north down the middle of the road. There weren't any cars. I went down and flew over them twice low. They looked at me but didn't react. Then a car came up from the south and they went uphill off the drive. Tried to follow them (the leaves are mostly gone) but I was working trying to get back up and lost sight of them. Pretty cool.

Post by **tomceunen** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:21 pm

Steve,
That would have been the photo of the day!!!
I'm planning to fly Dickies Thursday.
Cheers
Tom

Spark · Post by **Spark** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:16 am

I enjoyed the PG flight at Dickey's yesterday. It was especially rewarding to fly a National Park Service site that I helped to 'open' for Paragliding.

Although I was only in the air for about 17 minutes, the views were spectacular.

I took some photos, available at

http://community.webshots.com/album/491901125YvyDQU

Unfortunately, I didn't get to snap photos of the bears

hanging3 · Post by **hanging3** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:16 pm

nice, I want to see a bear!
Hopefully with more cool weather flying this year I will.
Don't let chris see photo 15

Spark · Post by **Spark** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:12 pm

hanging3 wrote: ...
Don't let chris see photo 15

Oh, I forgot to mention that I met a friend of Chris in the LZ

Just kidding, Chris.