Landsailing Oregon’s Alvord Desert | Oregon Field Guide

Think you need water to sail? These innovators have found a way to use the wind to cast off across the waterless Alvord desert, and the experience is both sublime and exciting.
The Alvord desert is the perfect desert playground for landsailers, with miles of uninterrupted playa and desert scenery and solitude that is unmatched in the Northwest.
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[@ffrreeddyy123456]

This was an ad on KZbin. First ad I’ve ever seen that I was really happy to see.

[@cams.2083]

Love living in Oregon, so much diversity! From the Willamette valley to the eastern deserts! Beautiful 🥰

[@kathyhepler382]

Beautiful area!!!!!

[@ballooningonmars4888]

Wonderful. Best Regards from a fellow land sailor from Namibia!

[@lovelymitchell1981]

Wow! That's the only word I can think of now other than that I have no words!

[@lovelymitchell1981]

Thank you for this Video this is something I want to try!

[@garygerard4290]

I had an aluminum rig that gave a very smooth ride out at El Mirage a number of times. It had a very well calibrated digital speedometer and I got it up to 45 mph briefly. It was easy to get into the low 40's. Your face is like 2 feet off the ground so thing are flying by. I had an ice chest and a couple of burgers and beers and would just shoot off to the far side and stop for lunch. That was really neat.

[@ffrreeddyy123456]

What a cool experience that isn’t very common. You’d think there wouldn’t be much power with such a thin sail

[@MajorCaliber]

There's so little resistance, that's all the sail/wing area needed! Ice versions have even LESS resistance, and can exceed 5x the wind-speed!

[@bensweeney5878]

I wonder if you could have a whole ship in a post apocalyptic world that ran like this!

[@smallbox6363]

Beautiful

[@peterjarnes25]

Yes please!

[@colinbarnes705]

Some lightweight, slow-flying RC planes are great for those windless days

[@Cogitovision]

I need to do this some day.

[@Alniemi]

I love the vid but I wish you wouldn’t run this as an ad, I’ve been going to the alvord and steens for years, and it’s been empty but the last couple years it has been very crowded, really takes the charm out of the place :(

[@danielkingery2894]

What a typical Progressive POV..."I'm privileged and I WANT all my enjoyment to be more important than everyone else's becuase I'M a Progressive and I deserve it."

[@wmffmw]

Try laminated, steam bent planks to form suspension. Pioneers used Calistoga Wagons with sails. That could get interesting.

[@trackie1957]

I agree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon?wprov=sfti1

[@rayrous8229]

Is it street legal?

[@klettersteig599]

Reminds me of pod-racing from Star Wars

[@harveypost7799]

Boy Mechanic book 60 yrs ago happier days gift from uncle..ice boat...

[@randallbarton7975]

I wouldn't do much playing on the quicksand with the grass growing on it..... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@wmffmw]

Ice Boats with wheels. We designed and built Ice Boats. This is a Land Boat does not quality as a Yacht. That being said, looks like fun. The record for Ice Boats is 115 knots, set in the late 1800's

[@erhardbaehni1832]

An iceboat can be converted as a landjacht too Mine dose a Nite . I even did win a race ones! I prefer Landsailing not as cold and no danger to go for a cold swim in the winter . Record speed on a landjacht is 125 mph .

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

@@erhardbaehni1832 Current record speed is 138.19295 mph

[@matdddd]

Can you drive cars out there?

[@ericvaughn8741]

the habitat destruction you cause is truly discusting