{"id":652,"date":"2011-06-07T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:23:47","slug":"helicopter-landing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Landing Site!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just under two hours for me to reach this site in the GW Forest, coming from northern Virginia. The last 4 miles or so are some fairly rough single-track up the side of a mountain. Conditions were excellent, completely dry, dead calm, and clear as a bell by 10:30PM.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see the view looking due S\/SW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-653\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A family having dinner at a campsite here causing the blue smoke. They left about 9PM. A long trek just for dinner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-654\" title=\"photo(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some more photos, in various directions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-655\" title=\"photo(2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-656\" title=\"photo(3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boosky, my wife&#8217;s Dachsund. Keeping guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-657\" title=\"photo(4)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-658\" title=\"photo(5)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-659\" title=\"photo(6)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A zoom shot, looking south. Fantastic view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"photo(7)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/photo7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1037\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m standing dead on that green arrow below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Clip1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"Clip1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Clip1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1106\" height=\"856\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zooming out. Not a soul within miles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Clip2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-663\" title=\"Clip2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Clip2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1444\" height=\"756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just under two hours for me to reach this site in the GW Forest, coming from northern Virginia. The last 4 miles or so are some fairly rough single-track up the side of a mountain. Conditions were excellent, completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-and-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ogee-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}