inav8r
Line Up and Wait
Yep, that's right, it's official. During my training and my solo XC's I never really had a need to climb above 5500' MSL. (It's all pretty flat around here and the ground is mostly under 1000' MSL).
Last week on my vacation down to North Carolina my wife and I rode my motorcycle on the blue ridge parkway just north of Asheville, NC. We decided to stop at Mount Mitchell, NC where the peak is 6684' MSL - which officially put me higher while on the ground than I have been while flying!
It was a beautiful day. The clouds were at about peak level. They kept creeping up the leeward side of the slope until the winds would pick up and blow them back off the summit. During a couple of the breaks in the clouds we got some cool pictures.
Last week on my vacation down to North Carolina my wife and I rode my motorcycle on the blue ridge parkway just north of Asheville, NC. We decided to stop at Mount Mitchell, NC where the peak is 6684' MSL - which officially put me higher while on the ground than I have been while flying!
It was a beautiful day. The clouds were at about peak level. They kept creeping up the leeward side of the slope until the winds would pick up and blow them back off the summit. During a couple of the breaks in the clouds we got some cool pictures.