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From emails exchanged and posted by a friend: Craig's been battling winds and thunderstorms and all sorts of adventures, but here's my favorite email of his so far (he had been pinned down by winds in a tiny New Mexico town for days at this point. Each day, waking to the same thing, get up at da...Tags: Crown Victoria, Airport Cars, Groundhog Day, New Mexico, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country
Location: New Mexico
- 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...
Tags: jeff_trike, jeffsflightlog, new mexico, rio puerco, ruins, ultralight, trike, la ventana mesa