And The Winner is...JIM CLINE!!!!


Let me start by saying Jim Cline (I like to call him J.C.) has what in my opinion one of the best jobs in the world.  He's a precision tree cutter meaning he removes trees from areas that are sensitive and could be damaged if the tree comes down wrong.  It's a great job because it's outside, he's self employed and makes enough money in the summer that he can ride all winter.
AND, you can't cut trees when the wind is blowing.  I mean c'mon is there anything better?!


J.C. showed up at the house the other day to check in, see where the riding was and find out our plans for the day. He's a character to say the least. He's a gun toting, bird watching, republican, amature astronomer and pilot. A bit of a tinkerer, and about as "hard core" as anyone you'll ever meet. He does double centuries (200 mile) bike rides in regular shorts for God's sake.

He's not the youngest kid to come out and play but he's definately one of the most dedicated.


Mat Morrisett  (above) came up from down south to get some first runs of the season in and Mike Elliott met us at Kennett.  The winds were pretty punchy and Mike went out first with his 12m Synergy.  He launched, shot across the field and promtly had his ass handed to him by some heavy gusts.  He had to pull his safety release to keep from getting dragged into the trees.  Fun Stuff.


The winds were not the best and it was pretty tight flying.  Mat was on his trusty 12m Sabre (a poor choice as he finds out) I was on the 15m Synergy and J.C. was on his new 10m Apex.  Mat eventually got over powered by his 12m and crash landed it in a stream.  J.C. and I didn't have any issues and got a bunch of good riding in.


Jim had his Apex 10m in the air and his Fatty Puss' on his feet (140mm under foot!) so he was definately getting the most out of the day.  He got more miles in than I did and just seemed to be in the right place at the right time wind wise. It was still that crazy WSW with ocassional NW so it could be dead one spot and raging 40' away.


Long story short Jim got the most flying time in for the day.  Eventually the wind died and we packed up. Molly got skunked because she was taking all the pictures and didn't get a chance to fly Hopefully we'll be on ice after this week now that we've had a good stretch of cold weather finally.  My reports should be a little more interesting then!

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