Yosemite 2009

barton · Post by **barton** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:17 am

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OSCAR · Post by **OSCAR** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:50 pm

I must say I'd love to fly

but being I won't be able to ( not being a H-4)

Groundhog · Post by **Groundhog** » Thu May 21, 2009 10:39 am

The view is better from the other side of the bars in the window of the rangers "fort," and it gave me a perverse thrill to see our leader begging for his freedom from armed men.

I and my better half will be there in hopes of a repeat, as I live vicariously nowadays!

stebbins · Post by **stebbins** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:39 pm

And remember! There are other weekends you can go. So, if you want to go more than once, can't make the SHGA weekend, or just plain want a different date, sign up at the link posted above.

Site monitors haven't filled in all the dates yet, but you can sign up tentatively, and that will encourage them to pick your weekend.

Groundhog · Post by **Groundhog** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:01 pm

Three individuals flew Yosemite for the first time on Saturday.
A record high number of people rafted down the Merced.
Fantastic quantities of food were consumed.
And someone left their knife at my campsite.

skyhighwoman · Post by **skyhighwoman** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:51 pm

I just want to say THANK YOU!! A special thanks again to Barton!
It was great to meet everyone. We did not get a chance to say good-bye to everyone.

The flying was absolutely beautiful. It such an incredible place to fly! The only thing that would had made it better was to have a better landing.

At least it was soft.

The rafting was incredible fun!!! I wish we were a little more prepared with more beer, food and sunscreen. My stomach hurt from laughing hard.

I got lots of video launching some landings and of course out on the raft.

Thanks again!!!

If you ever come up to Bay area be sure look us up or contact Lynn for our info. Okay Lynn I am admitting that I know you.

I'll be sure to work on the video and send a copy to Lynn

Happy Flying!!

Carmela & Rex

Lynn McLaughlin · Post by **Lynn McLaughlin** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:40 pm

Carmela and Rex,

Thanks for joining us! You two were a great addition to the weekend. SHGA has a "notorious" reputation for fun and we are happy that you could enjoy a slice of our good times. Send us your video footage and please consider yourselves among our SHGA family. We've been doing the Yosemite trip for over 10 years and remember... we have fun flying in So. Cal too. So, if you can launch The ROCK and land at 4 grand, you can safely fly and land our "crazy" LZ. Plus, many of us would be happy to host you for the weekend.

Thanks for making the drive to join SHGA in Yosemite. When we come to fly Funston, Diablo, Mt. McClure, Marina, Big Sur, Mission or Mt. Tam, we will be calling on you...

HG communities ROCK!

Lynniemac

ericbrown · Post by **ericbrown** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:00 am

Thanks to everyone for making it a blast! Who knew the river float would be so fun.

Does anyone have a video of Malury's virgin launch? I took an amazing video of it and then accidentally deleted it like a dummy. I know there were a few people shooting launches, not sure if anyone got his or not.

Meg B · Post by **Meg B** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:25 pm

Yosemite was a good time... and no bear attacks!

Eric, I have Malury's launch and all the hooting and hollering that went with it. I'll upload and send sometime soon.

JD · Post by JD » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:15 pm

ericbrown wrote:..........I took an amazing video of it and then accidentally deleted it............

Eirc, I've been able to recover deleted video on SD cards using RescuePro from Sandisk. Let me know if you want a copy.

Meg B wrote:Yosemite was a good time... and no bear attacks!

Eric, I have Malury's launch and all the hooting and hollering that went with it. I'll upload and send sometime soon.

Don't you mean: BEER attacks? Which club did you go with? Can't wait to see Malury get his Yosemite badge.

Groundhog · Post by **Groundhog** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:41 am

Badges?
We don't have no stinking badges!
We have current H4 cards.

ericbrown · Post by **ericbrown** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:59 pm

Thanks Jonathon, I tried it out but couldn't get it to find that video.

Megan it would be great if you could get that to him somehow. Thanks!

JD · Post by JD » Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:57 pm

ericbrown wrote:Thanks Jonathon, I tried it out but couldn't get it to find that video.........

Eric, What it does is find fragments of the deleted video and present these under unique file names. It's a time consuming and somewhat messy process but it does work as long as the card wasn't overwritten with new data.

Rome Dodson · Post by **Rome Dodson** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:06 am

LYNNE, WE HAVE BEEN FLYING YOS. SINCE 1976 OR 1977 , EVEN BEFORE I'M SURE. ROME

skyhighwoman · Post by **skyhighwoman** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:33 am

Hey all,
I am almost done with my video BUT Lynn asked if I can do an extended version. If someone had inflight video or landings they can send me please PM. I only took air photos.

I will send Lynn the raw video as well.

I'll post it when I get it on line

TIA

Happy Flying!
Carmela

FrescaJoe · Post by **FrescaJoe** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:53 am

Joe F Jr.

Edit from Chip, need to place the URL of the image between the tags

skyhighwoman · Post by **skyhighwoman** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:02 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mwxPdND7fE[/youtube]

I got my Yosemite video up.

I hope you enjoy it!!

Carmela

Lynn McLaughlin · Post by **Lynn McLaughlin** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:34 am

Thanks Carmie! Wonderful footage and a great momento for SHGA. We did have a lot of fun

I hope you will join us again, next year...

L

stebbins · Post by **stebbins** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:02 am

There will be a monitor at Glacier point on Wed, Thurs and Fri mornings, July 29-31.

This is unusual - Generally, the monitors do the weekends, and occasionally a Mon or Fri. The Park is much less crowded Tues-Thurs, so now is the time to seize the opportunity.

If you want to go, just sign up at: www.yhga.org

or call George Stebbins before Monday afternoon (July 27th.)

barton · Post by **barton** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:39 pm

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Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

Yosemite 2009

Yosemite 2009

The view is better from the other side

Yosemite Fly and Float Day a Success

yosemite, CORECTION

Sylmar Armada on the Mereced