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Working my way up the East River past Crested Butte, to 10707 ft Schoefield Pass, and on to the beautiful grass strip at Marble, Colorado. The big mountain at the center is Gothic Mountain.Tags: jeff_trike, jeffsflightlog, calendar, calendar 2016
Gypsum flat, near Dell City, Texas
I flew south to land at a gypsum lake, just a few miles north of the Texas, New Mexico State line. I camped under the wing with 5 other pilots of New Mexico Backcountry Pilots Group. There were a million stars out that night.Tags: jeff_trike, jeffsflightlog, calendar, calendar 2016
- Waiting for the frost to melt off my wing at Buckhorn Airstrip, outside of Crested Butte, Colorado. The wings don't work if there is any frost on them.
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- It is starting to get cold, so I made a sunset flight over the Manzano Mountains, in calm glassy conditions.
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- Paul and I flew from Belen to Murrow Field on the Divide (NM99), a beautiful backcountry strip on Rol Murrow's ranch in northern New Mexico. We were trashed high winds and rotors coming off of Mt Taylor. They were strong enough that I made contingency plans to divert to Pagosa Springs if it was g...
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- West of the Rio Puerco, near Mt Taylor is La Ventana Mesa with a maze of canyons connected by windows eroded in the sandstone. I first "discovered" these windows about a year ago in September 2016. When I overlayed my GPS track over topo maps, I saw I flew over La Ventana Mesa. Ventana means Wind...
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- Paul and I took a long 5.1 hour flight over the Jemez Mountains on July 13, 2017. We had perfect calm winds for the flight and on the way to Jemez we made a pass over the "Vents". These are some amazing travertine springs near the Jemez Caldera. Some look like miniature volcanoes, others nests fr...
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- Check out my new 360 VR video of my trike flight up Glen Canyon. You can drag your viewpoint around with your mouse, use the cursor in the corner, or your finger on your cell phone. I have also tried it with my Samsung GearVR, and it looks pretty good, but I like the fullscreen on my cell phone o...
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Grand Canyon Trip, 2018 Day One
I finally uploaded my flightlogs from trip out to the Grand Canyon in late October 2018. Here is Day One of the trip,7.4 hours of flight from Belen, NM to Marble Canyon, AZ with visits to Meteor Crater, Grand Falls of the Little Colorado, and the Marble Canyon sector of the Grand Canyon. &nb...Tags: grand, canyon, jeffsflightlog, jeff_trike, XC
- This mountain captures the spirit of New Mexico like no other. On the first day of a trip up to Colorado, Paul and I flew up to ShipRock Peak, in the 4 Corners area of New Mexico. We followed the 6 mile long spine from the south, then circled the peak test for thermals and strong winds. Finding...
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