Windy Ridge Aerotow 2020 Aug 20-23

[Sinkhappens86]

Day one here at Windy Ridge!

[hello82]

Wish I could have made it! This year is really turning out to be a total dud for sailplane flying.... Field looks great !

Have safe fun all

Matt

[Steve P]

Today rocked!!! Fantastic weather.

[French1]

Some pictures of these first two days

[Sinkhappens86]

Day 2 on Windy Ridge

[hello82]

awesome....those clouds are looking 200%. perfect!!

[Steve P]

Thanks so much for some truly spectacular days of soaring, good people and beautiful surroundings!

Saturday, I spend far more time trying to get my planes down to a reasonable altitude instead of searching for lift!!!!!!! Epic.

Whatever you paid the weather forecaster, it was worth it! Windy Ridge remains on the MUST DO list. Now, onward to Sky High.

[Soarntz]

Thanks Steve and Kevin for hosting the event. Small group, but great times . Got to maiden me Baudis Antares...perrfect place to do do. Actually, a Re-maiden as it had ,5 flights before I took ownership.... SWEET Plane.

[Sinkhappens86]

Thanks to everyone who made the trip out to Windy Ridge. The weather was absolutely perfect every day. Flying in the smooth, blue sky in the mornings, big lift in the afternoon, beautiful sunset flying, and sitting around the campfire watching the satellites.

Thanks to all our tow pilots, Steve K, Len, Stephane, Steve P and Gunny. We can't get into the air without you.

Thanks to the Windy Ridge club for supporting us with the tent, tables and prepping the field. And an especially big thanks to Gary Loucks for letting this rowdy group invade his airport.

Looking forward to next year and Muncy in a few weeks!

[lenb]

For the unfortunate soles that missed the event this year, you screwed up!!
Its real easy to develop a reason and not putting out the effort to attend an event, however if you're enjoy scale soaring and love to fly in perhaps the best location available, maybe its time to stop making excused and just treat yourself to a great time.

Every day was better than the last. The event started out with beautiful weather and every day was perfect. Thanks to the generous owner of the property for allowing us to store out planes in his personal hangar, while he moved his planes outside for the week. A great guy with a huge heart.

Thanks to the windy ridge gang for another memorable event.

A real round of applause goes out to Conio for his generosity and kind heart. Conio had a ready to fly Blanik at the event for sale and when he saw this young man struggling to keep his well worn and ready for retirement ASK21 in the air, Conio opted to give the 15yr old Jack the Blanik for free!!! It could not have gone to a nicer kid too.. Bravo Conio..

Len

[Steve P]

Kudos to Conio! Wonderful thing to do for a great kid!!

[Soaranator]

Wow! Very cool....

[gunny11]

Wow! What a great time!!! Thanks to the Kremer's and club for having this event. There were a lot of strong lift that got me up to altitude multiple times. Like Steve P. said, had to fight to get down, lol.

[Csessa]

Thanks to all that were there for a wonderful weekend. Good flying and good friends can not be beat. This is a excellent flying site and the hospitality is always top notch. And excellent weather.

just a few photos.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/148292133@N08/269wuJ

[Sinkhappens86]

Windy Ridge Aerotow video is up! Some awesome shots in this one... enjoy!

[Jeff D]

Another great time at Windy Ridge. Thank you to Steve, Kevin and all the people that helped put it together. Thank you to Steve K, Kevin, Len, Steve P and Gunny for tow duty. Great to be with friends again flying and camping. It doesn't get much better!

Finally settling into culling the 1000+ pictures. I think the picture count went up when some people started putting in up and go units in their planes. It used to to be 1 to 3 passes per tow. Now they just keep coming

Had to put this shot out early. Probably my favorite. After a full day of just great times flying, photos and hanging out right into the evening you just don't want it to end! But sooner or later it has to happen. I'll just title this one "Going Home". As Len's JS1 broke over the tree line into the post sunset sky heading for the hanger we finally called it quits. What a day!

Enjoy,
Jeff D

[Csessa]

One of the best photos. Jeff definitely sees the photo 30sec before it happens and his camera is always on his hip. Thanks for the memories.

[Sinkhappens86]

Awesome shot Jeff!

[gunny11]

whoa... Oh man thats sweet!

[Jeff D]

Ok folks, the album is up. Here is the link.

Also thank you Gunny for taking a few shots while I got some scooter time playing with the locator beacon.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmQMiQ6p

Hope you enjoy it.

Later,
Jeff

[French1]

Some amazing shots as usual Jeff, thanks for the pictures of my 22, love the picture of me and my son!

[Csessa]

Jeff, great shots and great post production work. The A10 looks real, amazing. Thanks for all the effort.