What a crowd at Bristol today and a bumch of good flights to show for it. Two Dougs, Chuck, Lon, Mark, Linda, Karl, Katrin, Matt and Katrin's mom and cousin from Germany. PG'ers launched first into light thermic conditions and Karl and the Dougs worked their way up slowly and disapeared. Mark went next and shamlessly pimped off the baggers to find his first thermal and climbed out. Skyqueen potatoed on launch through a sweet cycle then FINALLY launched and climbed out under Mark. It was real light when I stepped into the slot so I potatoed for a while waiting for my cycle to come through. It finally picked up and I launched into light but workable lift and although it took a while worked my way up and over the back and climbed in a growing thermal to cloudbase. I could hear Mark and Linda on the radio but could not answer back and had last seen them at base behind the mountain so I drifted back looking but could not find them. Turns out they had worked back up wind over the valley, went over me, and were now behind me. As I came to the edge of the lake I turned cross wind and started working north towards Canandaiqua, climbed again over Chesher and as I was looking around I realized I was looking down on clouds and was up in the wispies of the cloud I was under. OOPS I pulled in and headed north to get out from under the cloud and could see the city coming up quickly. I decided to head more west towards Bloomfield as that was the last thing I had heard from Mark and Linda but found massive sink on the way. I picked a wheat field that had been recently combined and headed for the nearest cloud up wind of the field and found nothing but sink till I had to turn back to make the field. I finally found some lift two hundred feet over the field but it was weak and drifting me over a bunch of unlandable blocks of corn so I surendered to the day and set up and landed. The landing was a belly slider and as I skided in I realized the field had recently been spread with a nice coating of manure which makes for a nice slick surface to slide on but leaves a very smelly film on harnesses and clothing, I HAVE GOT TO DO SOME LAUNDRY NOW!!!!!!!!
Thanks to Mark for coming to pick me up, we picked up Doug S. in Chesher, Linda in Bristol Center on the way back to the LZ, I don't know where the rest ended up and I don't think they were done when I left I thought I heard Matt was headed up.
Flights: 1
Duration: 42 min.
XC: 9 miles
Fun factor: 9 out of 10
1 comment:
Hey there Rick and friends,
My name is Joseph and Ive been lurking in your yahoo group and checking this blog the past month as I am coming up from Mexico to visit my family in Buffalo end of August and plan on bringing my PG.
Hoping to get just a few phone numbers of the pilots who are MOST often getting out to fly (ie weekdays too) so that I can maybe catch up with you all at launch. I have been informed by several of the requirements of current USHGA and Rochester flying credentials and WILL comply.
My private email is: chirojoseph@yahoo.com
GREAT to see you are such a tight community of diehards..and great to hear about your flights and see pictures. I studied many years in the fingerlakes region, learned to windsurf, wine tasting, music fests..but never dreamed of FLYING there..Im looking forward to meeting you all.
Good Winds
Joseph Will
www.kiteboardmexico.com
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