Gretchen has flown with Brad quite a few times and she could easily tell how excited I was to go. We turned around, hiked back down the mountain, hopped in the car and drove out to landing zone at the base of Coronet Peak. There were high clouds in the sky so Brad wasn’t sure we would have a long flight. But we were nicely surprised in the air as the sun came out, warmed the mountain sides, and kept us up for a little over an hour.

It was an awesome flight. We soared back and forth along a ridge multiple times and although it’s safer and, I suppose, “better” to be higher in the sky, I really liked being close to ridge and tree tops. As we flew to the landing zone, Brad pulled us into a series of asymmetric spirals, a technical term for flying really really fast in circles. I thought my eyeballs might pop out the back side of my head but I loved it. We landed safely and had to spend a minute figuring out how to walk again. Thank you Brad!!

BJ called just shortly thereafter and I headed back to town to pick him and his wing up and bring them back out to the park so he could kite. He’s not quite mentally ready to launch himself off a mountain, but I think a few more evenings kiting his wing will get him amped up to fly again. The four of us ended the evening over a Mexican feast and Speight’s, our first Mexican meal since we left home, with our roommates back at our flat.