jeff trikeAerotrike Cobra 912, with a Rival-X wing.

1800 hrs as of January 2019

High Altitude Flights over Crested Butte and Marble Colorado

By jeff trike

Categories: Cross Country / XC, Video

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This video covers days 3 and 4 of an epic 6 day trip into Colorado in June 2016. On this morning we departed Creede, Colorado before dawn and flew for two hours to reach Crested Butte, Colorado. I stayed high and worked my way west, following the East River up and over Schofield Pass on my way to the beautiful grass strip at Marble. We landed and set up camp next to the Crystal River which flows through the valley.

Later in the day, we took a 1 hour sunset flight to play around the high mountains east of Marble and landed right at sunset. We wanted to stay here another day, but the winds were predicted to become strong later the next day. We opted to cross back to Crested Butte while we still could.

The next morning we had frost on our wings, and had to wait for the sun to come out and melt the wings off. If you don't know this already, do not ever take off with even the slightest hint of frost on your wings because you have no lift. I took off first, followed by the 3 other trikes in our party. We climbed up high and checked the beautiful show capped mountains between Marble and Crested Butte. The continuous adrenaline rush is almost to much to bear. I left the mountains and descended to the lazy meanders of the East River and followed them for a few miles in a relaxing flight before landing at Crested Butte.

Amazing flights, my best ever.

I wrote up a 6 part flightlog which has all the details of the trip and lots of pictures.
Check them out. 2016 has been a great flying year for me so far.

http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_15_colorado_day1.pdf
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_16_colorado_day2.pdf
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_17_colorado_day3.pdf
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_18_colorado_day4.pdf
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_19_colorado_day5.pdf
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2016/2016_06_20_colorado_day6.pdf

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