SpicyGoliath

I am tired of trees.
Sure they are pretty and provide nice shade but, they are horrible for:

Launching a paramotor - not much success after my maiden flight
Satellite signals - no internet while hunkering down in the cold dark forest
Sightseeing - I can’t even see the 14000 ft Mount Shasta which is less than 4 miles […]

Turning off highway 15 on which I did not see any traffic for 20 miles, I follow a narrow shady dirt road until I get to an unmarked campground next to the Harris Spring fire station. Nobody around, so I check out the deserted buildings which obviously have been that way for a while. The forest is eerily silent as I […]

Finally! Today I took my paramotor for a spin.

The Shasta / McCloud area consists mostly of National Forest. Instead of asking ‘is it ok to launch a powered paraglider with a propeller the spins at 700 km/hr in your national forest?’ I opted for ‘where is a nice flat area to fly from?’ The ranger did […]

This morning I started my paramotor - or Ass Fan as Thep calls it - and ran the engine for a couple of minutes. The US Army Corps of Engineers would not allow me to fly at the Black Butte Dam (where I was camped last night), so I moved on to Shasta today.
Staying at […]

Beautiful wedding amongst the giant trees, rocks and waterfalls of Yosemite National Park.