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  • in reply to: This weekend and beyond #18755
    Tim Ward
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    Interestingly, if you go to https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/235048.shtml?gm_track#contents

    and checkmark the ‘track’ feature, so it shows a black line in the middle of the predictive cone, then zoom way in on the map, it looks like the middle of the likely path goes very, very close to the LZ and launch.

    Of course that doesn’t mean that’s where it will actually go, but it’s funny to see that prediction.

     

    in reply to: Steve “Crash” Corbin #18646
    Tim Ward
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    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.

     

     

    in reply to: PG Gear Left in the LZ #18496
    Tim Ward
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    Sprinklers come on at 9:15 pm.

    in reply to: July Fly-in (July 22, 2023) #18449
    Tim Ward
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    Works for me.

    in reply to: CONTAINER CLEAN-OUT & AUDIT 15 JULY 2023 #18416
    Tim Ward
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    The club has a generator in the Gator container.

    in reply to: Tandem Passenger Waiting at Crestline #18413
    Tim Ward
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    I find all these posts by David Webb to be highly suspicious.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18292
    Tim Ward
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    That was Dusty Rhodes. A clever visual reminder. But it seems to have fallen on, to mix metaphors, deaf ears.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18264
    Tim Ward
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    No mice caught for several days now.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18243
    Tim Ward
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    I think they’d need access to either green stuff or water.
    I’m not going to move everything out. Maybe Luke can organize that.
    Again, I don’t mind helping from time to time, but I’m not taking on a project that size.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18223
    Tim Ward
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    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.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18220
    Tim Ward
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    Another mouse in the trap on Thursday. So far, all have been in the trap on the front left side.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18188
    Tim Ward
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    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.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18144
    Tim Ward
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    Okay. Well, I removed the vegetation in the doors and stuck some traps in every box.
    Dusty sprayed a peppermint based rodent repellent around. You’d have to ask him exactly where.
    I checked yesterday and no dead mice in mousetraps.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18140
    Tim Ward
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    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.

    in reply to: Mice in container #2 !! #18129
    Tim Ward
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    Okay. There’s now 4 traps in #2.

    I don’t know whose idea it was to bolt one of the handles shut but it didn’t speed things up.

    I also cleaned out the weeds that got clamped in the right hand door.

    I suspect this was their ingress.