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Take-off – Copper Mountain
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- Direction
- Takeoff orientation unknown.
- Coordinates
- 38.0483, -119.1960
- Altitude
- 2794 m
- Region
- California, US
- Landing
- 2.6 km from the take-offView on map ↗
Take-off description
Access via 4x4 road from Virginia Lakes Rd. 1st left above hwy 395, contour around Jordan Basin to launch.
Rules / airspace
Unregulated Ste
Comments
This is a "Big Air" site. Watch out for West Wind/ Sierra rotor can be serious. Hike to the top of the ridge before launching, thermal block can hide the West Wind. High Altitude, and good XC flights have been done from here. Very consistent site- better for XC than Boy Scout.