Hyner Labor Day
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Hyner Labor Day
Looks like a bit of a mix at Hyner this weekend. Friday will be light and variable (which is good), saturday looks like a Jack's day, sunday and Monday back at Hyner for good conditions. Chances of rain saturday and sunday.
Brian Vant-Hull
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Re: Hyner Labor Day
I'll be going up too! Hope to see the fireworks that I missed last time.
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Arriving on Thursday. Hyner does it own thing regarding wind direction so even though the forecast is not that good for Fri/Sat/Sun, I am hopeful.
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The wind was not very co-operative at Hyner. On Thursday a bunch of pilots flew Pleasant Gap including me. It was my first time there and the LZ is quite a glide out with not much of any bail out areas (some because of corn). Wind was coming in maybe about 10 mph+ and I got a bit above launch fairly quickly and even got to 1000 above for a little while. A few pilots got some good altitude to the North of launch. There was a bit of a sink cycle and when I got down to 200 above I decided to head out with hopes of finding a thermal on the way out but didn't find any and reaching the LZ was relatively easy. After I landed conditions improved and a number of pilots got a few thousand above. My flight was at least 30 minutes and several got between an hour and two. It was supposedly fairly windy at Hyner on Thursday and I don't think anyone flew there. On Friday wind was very cross from the left (South and SSE) but there were some flights when a calm cycles occurred and I did a sled. Saturday was even more cross (over the back) or SSE but a few calm cycle flights were done. Sunday started out rainy and it looked like it might rain most of the day so we headed home. On Saturday there was a ALS ice bucket challenge up by the wall in support of TR and a lot of people (30+) did it!
john middleton (202)409-2574 c
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As usual for these things, monday looked the best. Epic sky, but the brave few who stuck out the sunday rain all did morning sleds and left.
Brian Vant-Hull
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Despite the poor conditions, I had a great weekend at Hyner with my crew. We swam, kayaked, threw the frisbee, shot bows, hung out by the fire, made some new friends and even got a sledder in between the rain. Looking forward to going back when the conditions are good.
Matt
Matt
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Not sure why the picture sizes are cropped and all jacked up, sorry.
Matt
Matt