Paragliding fox

Hello Blog World,

Little Fox here.  Today I am at Longsword Vineyard enjoying a tasting flight, a paragliding competition and 100+ degree heat.  This fox is tough and can certainly handle the heat.   Look at all this wine to try.  Where to start?

The wine is good but the real reason I am here today is to watch the Applegate Open paragliding competition.   The paragliders take off from that mountain over there and land about 100 yards from my table at the vineyard.  Pretty cool eh?

Do you see those white things in the sky?  Yep, about 100 paragliders took off and are heading out on a GPS obstacle course.  They get points for reaching certain parts of the valley and then landing after visiting each obstacle. 

Last year the plan was to watch the Applegate Open (it's in the Applegate Valley FYI) but Covid cancelled the event. 

Roommates had a nice lunch spread.  However, the pictures of this fox enjoying his lunch have disapeared from the phone.  Ah technology......that's okay you can see the paragliders coming in for a landing.

These paragliders who are landing first didn't quite hit all of their GPS coordinates so even though it's cool to watch them land, they were kind of bummed that they missed their markers.  

Luckily this is a friendly competition so all was good. 
Off to my next adventure. 

Out and about with Little Fox

Hello Blog Friends.
It is I, Little Fox here today excited to share with you a recent adventure.

This is going to blow some of your minds but I am in the woods getting ready for a hike.  Today, I am in the Applegate Valley (this is Applegate Lake in the background) waiting for my roommates to lace up their boots for a hike.

It's Spring and the lake is a little dry.  There was some snow recently but nothing major.  I hope the valley that relies on this lake has enough water.  This is forest fire country down here so this lake is a pretty important water source.

The woods are beary nice right now.  The trail is dry, the trees are in good shape and there is a ton of There are a lot of Manzanita trees  in this part of the state.  They are a red bark tree that almost seems as if it sheds it bark.

After sufficient rest and relaxation I was off on another hike. This one was on an old Bureau of Land Management (BLM) road.  This trail was called Enchanted Forest - sounds perfect for me. 

Some sort of flowering bush (I am no botanist, I'm an archeologist). 

An amazing meadow.  It was only a mile or so into the hike, too bad it would be perfect for lunch. 

A side hike in the enchanted forest was to a memorial.  The memorial is for a helicopter crew who crashed near here in the 90s.  I could not find any info about the pilots.  Were they loggers scouting land? Firefighters? Tourists?  The mystery remains. 

Along the way I came across an old truck.  This is farm and ranch country so there were lots of old machinery in the area. 

Sequoia says "hi"

Whew, made it to the viewpoint on the Enchanted Forest Trail.  Any further on the trail is private property so I am going to enjoy my PB&J sandwich at this viewpoint. 

Now, my roommates hinted that we are also in wine country. Maybe I can convince them to take me to a vineyard??????