DaveSchy wrote:We used to call that area north of the dune the "Crow's Nest". I would drive my '51 panel down from Olympia and we could camp right there(it's houses now).
End of the day we would pack our gliders (Windlord and C5B) up and leave them set up overnight for a morning flydown.
We never got hassled for being there....
That sounds like what I remember. I went back around 2004, and I suspected that our previous launch was all houses just as you've reported. Thanks.
Bill Cummings wrote:Where did those hassle free days go? I went to Chelan Washington this summer and there is too much hassle going on there now so I’m thinking I won’t go back again.
I had spent two to three weeks in Chelan on 18 different trips.
I used to love it there.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. USHPA has been asleep at the wheel (or worse) for decades now. Their motivation is control ... not freedom. It was during the Paul Montville era that they cooked up the 1984esque slogan
"This is Flying. This is Freedom." ... straight from the
"Ministry of Truth".