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Marshall road closure

The Marshall road (2N40) has been closed at all gates due to the weather. It is temporary according to Jack Kennedy of the Lytle Creek office. Safe to assume it's closed for this weekend. At this point, patience and understanding of their work load is a good idea. We'll work to find more info if it's still closed next week. BTW, Crestline is open if you have chains. As of this afternoon there is a


PG in India?

News sources in India report "the Lashkar-e-Toiba has shopped for over 50 sets of paragliding equipment in Europe. " and "The equipment has been bought to carry out airborne attacks using suicide bombers, government sources said Friday."

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/After-hijack-threat--now-LeT-paragliders/570813

Presumably Powered Paragliders would be more effective. We may have to be ready to stress to wuffos the difference. If someone does manage to cause havoc using a PG (or HG) we may all have to scramble to keep flying sites open.