Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
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Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
Gotta work in the morning but looking forward to a late PM flight. Who can join? Bacil
Re: Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
I am interested
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Re: Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
Coming to the Pulpit today with both HG & PG. ETA 12:30 ish
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Re: Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
Heading up now. Might be better for the hangies later in the day, but we shall see!
Re: Pulpit Saturday Sept. 5th
What an amazing combo HG & PG day at the Pulpit! A flock of PG'ers, among them George, Felix, Tom C, Joe S, Eric, Josh, and I'm already in name-overload. Maybe 15 all told? A handful of HG'ers: John M, Alan (Allen?), Charlie, Rich B, Walt, Bacil (just to help out), someone I didn't cross paths with, and myself.
Conditions were light/PG-only early, but thermals started pumping by about noon. Just Alan and myself at that point, not enough for wire crew, so we hung around for several hours. I've got some great PG pics, will post a few in a day or so.
Many of the PG'ers headed out on XC flights, and I hear Tom's was amazing (no surprise eh?). But there were plenty of stay-local pilots too, and it was great to see so many wings in the sky.
Alan was the first HG pilot off, good launch, and he completely spec'd out, like 6500MSL? I was second, but was unable to connect with the good stuff and only managed maybe 1500' over, all day. Zig'd when I should have zag'd for one of them, Charlie was in the air at that point, and he just left me in his spiral wake. But all of us were low at many points, it was *not* a gimme-day by any stretch. Constant/continual thermalling, major sink holes, below the ridge, back up again.... I think maybe 20 minutes of my 2:20 flight were chill/relax
But that's not a complaint, lots of air time, lots of thermalling with friends, PG and HG soaring around together, can't get much better! We enjoyed brews from the ramp at sunset and well beyond, many laughs.
Conditions were light/PG-only early, but thermals started pumping by about noon. Just Alan and myself at that point, not enough for wire crew, so we hung around for several hours. I've got some great PG pics, will post a few in a day or so.
Many of the PG'ers headed out on XC flights, and I hear Tom's was amazing (no surprise eh?). But there were plenty of stay-local pilots too, and it was great to see so many wings in the sky.
Alan was the first HG pilot off, good launch, and he completely spec'd out, like 6500MSL? I was second, but was unable to connect with the good stuff and only managed maybe 1500' over, all day. Zig'd when I should have zag'd for one of them, Charlie was in the air at that point, and he just left me in his spiral wake. But all of us were low at many points, it was *not* a gimme-day by any stretch. Constant/continual thermalling, major sink holes, below the ridge, back up again.... I think maybe 20 minutes of my 2:20 flight were chill/relax
But that's not a complaint, lots of air time, lots of thermalling with friends, PG and HG soaring around together, can't get much better! We enjoyed brews from the ramp at sunset and well beyond, many laughs.