Paul’s mom, Barb, sends:

I’m trying to send Paul’s YouTube site. You might be interested in seeing his flights in Yosemite and Utah.

Type in — youtube.com
Click on — YouTube
In search bar type — SBDHGPICS

His “First Yosemite Flight” vid is pretty good. 

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!

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.

My deep condolences to Paul Garnet’s wife and son, family and loved ones. He had an amazing combination of big-heartedness, can-do spirit, and goal-oriented focus. Such a loss, ‘Gone too soon’ doesn’t even begin to express it.

I was a new pilot when Paul came along and I was immediately struck by his cool confidence and lack of arrogance. He even tolerated Rob & Di calling him ‘Little Paul’ with aplomb. I recall vividly both of us ridge soaring Crestline, I with my blue Lite Dream 185 and he with his brown Raven 149, back and forth, seeing who could get higher. I knew this kid was going places, and go places he did!

He said he was going to be a paramedic and before we knew it he was crewing an ambulance out of Riverside, easing people’s suffering and no doubt saving lives. Then he was off to Alasaka to do that and more, contending with conditions far more challenging than mild SoCal. He married his lovely wife and raised their son like his own, built a home from the ground up. Took what he learned building his house and got into construction services. Along the way he learned to paraglide, flew trikes, flew bush planes and made part of his living doing those things, even teaching a few people to fly flex wings and providing them with gliders through his Wills Wing dealership.

If anyone ever took ‘High Adventure’ to heart, it was Paul.
Paul Garnet LIVED.

Gene drove all the way up the front, 2N40, to Marshall today. Road is fine.  Still the large rock at the bottom to squeeze past and the one rock slide is well-packed. . You don’t want a low-slung sedan going from Regionals to Marshall ;)

They were driving loads up Hwy. 18 to Crestline.  I heard the wait for the escort section going up wasn’t bad but longer coming down,  probably it being Sunday and all.  They said you can’t really turn from 18 to go out to Marshall Peak because reasons.

Good Flying today!  Most said it was way better than expected.