Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Dragging my hang gliding gear up the Heublein Tower trail to the launch (using a cart).

Jogging up from the helipad, then back down to the car with my cart and Kermit's cart. In between, I got about 40 minutes of airtime, so definitely more than the hiking.

Night park-O at Aims's 60th birthday party. I did the "ultra" option of going to them all in order. Fairly sloppy, the small trails were hard to see on the ground, but I made plenty of other mistakes. My new headlamp is not adequate for high-speed night-O on its own, I need something else to illuminate the map.

Control wakeup at Townsend. After I did the first four, the next three appeared to be dead, so I swung back by the start, where Ed said that the stick I was using was full -- he cleared it, and the other three were fine. I dragged out my old Active Ankle to keep myself from doing further damage, but it was strangely uncomfortable.

Control pickup, a different batch. About halfway through, I stopped and turned the Active Ankle around so it was facing the opposite way, and that felt a lot better. Seemed counterintuitive, but as long as it works, I don't care. I think there used to be a sticker indicating which way it's supposed to go, but that fell off a long time ago. I managed one entertaining minor screwup, where I apparently crossed a large trail without seeing it under the fallen leaves. Looks like I spent alomst exactly the same amount of time as I did yesterday afternoon.