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Kitchen area getting ready for concrete. A big THANK YOU to everyone working on this project! It’s really moving along.
I’m blown away by how majestic it already feels! The height of the posts and the soaring arcs of the beams feel very open and inspiring. Cathedralesque.
Welcome to the Church of Sublime Soaring!
We got started about 9:30 with a handful of workers from yesterday and many more pitched in as locals and visitors arrived for Saturday flying. We had all the posts and beams up by Noon. Over the next few hours many went flying and some die-hards did the tedious final measuring and aligning and drilling and bolting. I launched from Regionals.
Big thanks to everyone involved, including those who had the vision and drive to get the project going.
Still needs roofing, more concrete, etc., but this is a huge step.
They got the roof all framed-in on Saturday & Sunday. My contribution was helping to move a chop-saw 15 feet on Saturday when I dropped by the LZ. Looks so different now. Helluva a lot of cutting and pounding and nailing and drilling and screwing. Thanks to all the workers!
Also, Dusty & Kathy Rhodes found chairs on deep discount at Big Lots, so they got a bunch. Dusty was putting loctite on the screws so they’d hold together longer.
After flying Monday I enjoyed some of the new shade at the north end of the structure
Owen Morse, Tim Ward, and a couple of others were supervised by architect Jai Paul.
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Jeff Bether at Crestline.
400-1000 fpm thermals (as much as 1,400 fpm) and numerous climbs to 6k and 6.5k. Strong sink in many places; got to 6k at Regionals and arrived at Crestline below the ridge, for example. Flew out to Kendall Hill, ready to land, but was zero-sinkin’. Thermal west of the lz took me back to the 750. Found sink in the canyon and landed into light W.
Thanks for the ride, Dan!
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