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stevek
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Highrock Saturday

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Kelvin, Brian Hardwick and I. Sun and clouds. Light nw winds building to soarable cycles which suckered us off for short soaring flights. 300 over, 15 minutes sort of stuff. Very unstable air. A patch of sunshine and it would rip. Back at launch about 3:00 and it had imroved a bit. Gave it another go. Much better. 2000 over (Kelvin got 2500). Easy to stay up this time. One frustrating aspect of the day: Every thermal, no matter where you caught it drifted to the towers (which I understand we are supposed to "stay away" from. Whatever that means). What's more, it would start screaming as the towers approached. Grounch

Brotto showed up late and got off about 6:30 or so. But it really started building and he landed after about half an hour.
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