Not unexpected, but still sad.

In the late 70s and early 80s, Kenny, Mike Wall, Steve and I flew together a lot.

We met him at Marshall.  He’d parked his station wagon in the middle of the setup area.  It  was obviously a hang glider pilot’s car.  But whose?  As we were setting up, he came in to top land, and his approach set him down on the roof of his car.  Which would have been a pretty neat trick, if he had managed a no-stepper, but he didn’t.  He ran down the windshield and the hood and did a pretty good no-damage whack.

As far as I know, that was where he acquired the sobriquet ‘Crash’.  He wore it as a badge of honor for several years, then I think he got a little tired of it.

I remember him slicing out the prototypes of SlingWings from foam egg cartons on the coffee table at Kenny’s house.

He and I independently discovered ‘The Rock’, down in Rubidoux.  The road to the top was terribly washed out, and I could only get about halfway up, so I hiked the rest of the way to fly it.

Steve must have been out of town when I showed it to Kenny and Mike.  I told them we’d have to hike halfway, and they were really skeptical… and then some kids came by with a dirt go-kart.  They wanted to see people fly, and we didn’t want to hike any more than we had to, so they took the equipment up.

The day was successful enough that a day or two later Mike, Kenny and I were back fixing up the road with shovels.

Then a week or so after that, Steve wants to show us this cool new site he found in Rubidoux.

Works for me.

I find all these posts by David Webb to be highly suspicious.

No mice caught for several days now.

I don’t know. When I went to put the traps in, someone had used a nut and bolt in addition to the lock. That didn’t seem to help.

There’s probably a floor drain somewhere. I don’t know what would have changed.

I don’t know how, but one trap took out a mouse and a smaller mouse with one snap.
I reset it.

Smells very pepperminty in #2.

No. I don’t mind doing things to help, but I left the site coordinator job.

Frankly, I didn’t see a lot of mouse droppings, but I wasn’t looking really hard.

There must be a local that has a glider in there that can monitor the mousetraps and reset them as necessary.

PGs need to be aware that hang gliders circling off the Southeast corner of the LZ are probably blowing off altitude to come in and land — just like PGs blow off altitude zig-zagging over the Ranch, in front of the pine tree.
Once an HG descends into their pattern altitude, it doesn’t take long for an HG on downwind to get to the base leg turn, because they’re going downwind, and generally at a fairly high airspeed.
Just because an HG is some distance away doesn’t mean it’s not a factor in a PG landing.

For every pilot: Any glider at your general altitude when you’re starting your approach is likely going to need to use the LZ about the same time you are, even if they seem “too far away” to matter. Might be a little sooner than you, might be a little later, but sink rates aren’t *that* different.