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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=545112016-27032010>If anyone here ever
wants to take up hang gliding, look at this site and scroll down to photo number
9. I recognized it as a picnic area I used to frequent many years ago, a
cliff that overlooks the Owens Valley in southern Taxifornia, about an hour and
a half north of the town of Ridgecrest:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=545112016-27032010>That where the dog
is standing is about 1000 meters above the valley floor way down there. On
a good hot updraft day, one can take off from there and soar all
afternoon. The takeoff spot is actually a little to the right of the right
edge of this photo, and it isn't really a cliff exactly. The ground drops
away at about pi/4 radians from horizontal, so it is functionally a cliff
ideally suited for the purposes of hang gliding but not for suicide, depending
on how one looks at hang gliding.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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