Day 6 Another beautiful day for a hike

Another beautiful day in the Applegate valley started out with a forecast for higher climbs, and more wind. We got both.

The 1st turnpoint was again out near Grants Pass and into the wind.
We drove out there and saw that everyone was up about 8,000 to 10,000 feet today. Crazy high, but that usually comes with a price.

It didn't take long to get my 1st call that Bill Hughes (our scorer) was under reserve and drifting towards Rogue River on the otherside. Off I went.

Then another call that Mayumi Honda had sidehill landed on top of Rabies Peak.

Then another call of a guy that had either thrown his reserve or got too low to make a safe landing and had landed on top of a mountain too.

Gonna be a busy day for rescues.

Motorhead was able to Mayumi down to his jeep, and then chased down the other guy who also hiked to his jeep.

Jen and I drove, then hiked up Savage creek close to Bill Hughes. It was very steep, very thick with bush, and tons of very high Poison Oak. We hiked up and arond the mountain for over an hour and finally after we got the new updated Spot coordinates were able to yell at Bill and hike to him.

Bill had a steerable Rogallo reserve and was able to steer his reserve into a partial clearing. Landing his reserve into a two small pine trees, and his new Gin Boom 10 into a small Madrone tree.

When I got there I realized the tree saw was not in my truck as we used it for another rescue. I had only a machete, and my big Kbar knife. Oh and a chainsaw.

I used the machete to cut down one tree. Bill used my knife to cut loose the glider. Madrone are very tough trees.

Then another pilot who's wife rescued him nearby drove up and met us. He hiked up the chainsaw and we were able to cut down the trees holding the reserve chute.

Couple of hours of hiking and smashing thru poison oak and we get to the Bronco and the beer...

Hell hike but fun.

Flat tire today so off I go to Medford in search of tires, then launch, then more rescues, Hehe