This morning, B and I went for a short ride on the Girdwood to Bird bike path, which largely parallels the Seward Highway along the Turnagain Arm.  This location has tidal swings of over 30 feet, the second highest variation in the world.  While on the ride the tide was mostly out, so most of the Turnagain Arm here was just a mud flat:

As usual, we did a some of our homeschooling in the car:

We drove North on the Glenn Highway, then the Old Glenn Highway to the town of Butte.  The paragliders I met in Girdwood yesterday gave me contact information for a PPG pilot in Anchorage who told me about a farm field in Butte where I could take off and land.  We left the RV in a dispersed camping area on the Knik River, then drove the three miles North to the launch site:

Kicking up dust to check the wind:

Since I hadn’t done forward launches in almost a month, I practiced this a bit:

B is ready for take off:

By the time I was ready to put on the motor, it was close to 10PM, so we called it a night.  I’ll come back and fly tomorrow.  You can’t beat the views from this field:

See the trip map for today’s drive.