You will be automatically forwarded to the 2006 event info in a few seconds.

You will be automatically forwarded in a few seconds.

Visit the Tiger Tag web site for a list of the waypoints that will be used! The Tiger Tag meet format will NOT be used but these waypoints will. Study before you get to the competition!

http://home.comcast.net/~TigerTag04/Waypoints.htm

** this list 'could' change before the meet so be sure to get the updated waypoints at the meet registration

Price is in Canadian dollars. The best way to reserve your spot is to pre-pay here on this site (just register and visit the store).

You can mail entry fees to:
Bob Rinker
9139 7th Ave
S Seattle, WA, USA 98108

Host a Canadian Pilot Invitation

Without getting too deeply into politics, we understand that our
President has strained foreign relations with the rest of the world in our war on terror. So, to help put things back in order, several Washington State paraglider pilots have offered to Host a Canadian for the week end of the Tiger X/C Comp, May 14th and 15th. If this is successful, we plan to work down the list of other countries, saving some of the more challenging ones like N Korea, Iraq, Syria and Iran for last after we have worked out the kinks..

Accommodations range from luxury east side homes, to camping in my backyard in the south end of the city of Seattle. While I have noticed several similarities in our languages, we do have translators standing by to help clear any confusion in communications.

Congratulations to Thomas McCune for winning the first ever Tiger XC

The forecast didn't look promising for the entire weekend but we got one nice day on Saturday. We arrived on Friday evening just in time for an XC seminar/GPS instruction/strategy seminar put on by Bob Rinker (meet director). It was great to see a room full of competitiors and free fliers eager to prepare themselves for the upcoming XC tasks. This is the first ever XC competition at Tiger and there was a lot of anticipation.

A relatively short task was called on Saturday after a great catered BBQ lunch on launch (which I have never seen at a competition before). The 8 mile task was complex (with 5 turnpoints) and challenging nonetheless due to the overcast skies but a large 2.5 hour launch window opened up the opportunity to hav ea couple attempts for those that launched early and sank out.

I wasn't too encouraged by the overcast skies to launch so I held back while the first five or so launched and scratched around for quite some time and launched just after Brett and a couple others finally scratched their way above launch. There seemed to only be one source of lift right at launch so that is where we ended up returning to after getting each of the first two turnpoints (which were no more than 2 miles from launch). Brett ended up getting the third turnpoint which was launch but I got back too low to get it and we then scratched our way down to the LZ.

Thom McCune (local XC distance record holder) showed us the lesson to take advantage of all opportunites presented to you during a competition and had his second launch ten minutes before the launch window closed into somewhat sunny skies and had a great time making his way through the entire course in about 45 minutes from when he launched.

We had a single start time of 2PM so Thom's flight ended up looking like a 2h33m flight. This would be the only task of the meet as we were hit with hard rains the next morning.

All-in-all, it was a great fun weekend thanks to Bob organizing the event and to all those that helped out. It was great to see a first time event put so much emphasis on instructing novice competitors, requiring GPSs and using the formal scoring system and GPS verification. It is a great learning process for all and I hope to see this become and annual event.

Mark

Scores:

Congratulations to Thomas McCune for winning the first ever Tiger XC

See the tasks/scoring link for the results

May 14 & 15, 2005
Tiger Mountain, Issaquah, WA, USA

Non-sanctioned just for fun xc comp at Tiger Mtn in Issaquah, WA (20 minutes from Seattle). A couple people have crossed the Cascade crest before.

Meet Director: Bob Rinker [mailto:teleboards@juno.com]
Scoring: Mark Dowsett

Things are moving ahead with the planned competition on Saturday May 14 & Sunday May 15th. The entrance fee is $50us and includes lunch on launch each day as well as two rides up the hill. I will hold an optional GPS/X/C/Comp seminar on the Friday evening before the comp if there is interest (please indicate on the registration form) I am planning on asking some of the veteran comp pilots if they would like to mentor new participants. The first pilot's meeting will be at 0900 on Saturday May 14th in the Tiger LZ Issaquah, WA. There are no refunds, so feel free to pay in person at the Friday evening meeting.

Non-sanctioned just for fun xc comp
at Tiger Mtn in Issaquah, WA (20 minutes from Seattle)
A couple people have crossed the Cascade crest before.

From: robert w rinker [mailto:teleboards@juno.com]
Subject: Tiger X/C Comp May 14, 15

Update:
Things are moving ahead with the planned competition on Saturday May 14 & Sunday May 15th. I have asked our club to post the event and registration form on the www.nwparagliding.com web site. Nicole is doing the same up in BC on the www.westcoastsoaring.com site too. I have attached a registration form to this email, hopefully that works. The entrance fee is $50 and includes lunch on launch each day as well as two rides up the hill. I will hold an optional GPS/X/C/Comp seminar on the Friday evening before the comp if there is interest (please indicate on the registration form) I am planning on asking some of the veteran comp pilots if they would like to mentor new participants. The first pilot's meeting will be at 0900 on Saturday May 14th in the Tiger LZ Issaqua,