Monday, July 16, 2012

Chronicity

We have been enjoying some very sweet northeast conditions at Kahana over the past few days. I flew three of those days, and scored a chronic double out and back crossing on each day. On the first day I flew a marathon 26 miles in six hours, ending in a chronic dash with Mad Dog!

On the second day I flew another chronic circuit with Mad Dog followed by an additional round trip to Kualoa, where we watched Bonnie land for her first time making it across. On the third day I flew a round trip to Kualoa, landed to wait out some huge squalls, then hiked again for one last chronic course to Kualoa and Punaluu and back, landing just in front of another band of squalls. That makes three chronic runs in three straight days of flying, a total of twelve hours in the air, and over 60 miles of cross country miles back and forth along a super scenic six mile stretch of coastline!

4 comments:

Thom said...

'Chronic' nope can't think of a better name for your disease, glad I don't have it.

Alex said...

Umm, right, you don't have it. wink, wink. Is your wife watching you type?

Alex said...

It was great to share the air with so many fellow chronics the past few days. A partial list: Woody, Duck, Mad Dog, Thom, Don, Bill, Jeff, Franz from the Netherlands, David from California, Chris, Ray, Kevin, Reaper, Bonnie, Jim, Lake, Jason, Harvey, Big John, JJ and Dawn from Maui, Sharky, Joey, Andrew and Olyvia. I'm sure there were others!

Waianae Jim said...

Got a couple nice long flights in but wasn't able to connect the dots to go on any of those bay crossing adventures, maybe next time. Add Scrappy & AllanC to the list.