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It's not looking quite as definite as of yet, but this Saturday has the potential of being a repeat of last Saturday at the Mustangs. Keep your eyes on the weather.

edit 1:
potential of light SW sustaining into the afternoon now waning. But all check the weather every 10 min for the next two days and keep you posted.

Edit 2:
Looks like the chances for Mustang this Sat are fading, the SW flow really isn't developing. On the bright side, it will be sunny and warm with light NW winds- will be fine at Box.


Edit 3:
The SW wind aloft is not strong or definite enough for it really to be a Mustang day. Let's go to Box. It will be a 'sure thing' tomorrw.


Edit 4: Saturday Morning 9am
Weather looks just great for Box Canyon. I plan on leaving town around noon.

Meeting Andy at the Basha's on Houghton at 12N. We'll be in the LZ~1pm.

What are you motorheads doing today? Fred and Ed? You gonna' be stinky or au natural?

Im thinking either Box or perhaps motoring Mustangs.
-Ed

I'll check the AM update tomorrow and try and decide noise vs. silence.

When and where do you meet? I'm going to try to make it.

Thanks

Andy

What is the verdict for saturday and sunday flying? I would love to break in the new wing! After watching Morey tease me for 2 1/2 hours of continuous flight last weekend I want to fly so bad I can taste it. I have to work in the early morning each day, but can come out to play after that.
Stuart

Sorry. I forgot my camera today, so no youtube video. Darn- it would have been a good one. It was thermalling in lightly on the 1st knoll, annoyingly alternating between the two launches. Fred wind dummied first, into what seemed like a perfectly soarable thermal, but while he was able to hang out in front of launch while it pumped, it didn't take him skyward. When it stopped, it was a quick trip to the LZ.

Seeing the generally light conditions, Ed made a wise decision and took Jammer and Wrangler on a jaunt to the top. Andy and I assisted Stu Pearson with his first Box launch in his crispy new U-Turn Emotion. A sweet looking wing. After a less than graceful take-off into a mellow and consistent breeze, Stu was in the air pretending to be a P4. Taking tight turns close to the hill, and effectively working the marginal lift. He was a soaring machine. Andy joined him next in the sky, and they were dancing around the first knoll, making it look like so much fun I wasted no time in making it 3 in the sky. After a while, the mountain decided to take a breath. I danced right, Andy and Stu to the left, and my choice turned out to be the lucky direction, as A&S soon found themselves both succumbing to the unbearable lightness of breeze.

I circled in a 400fpm ride straight up the ridge, and got to the top about the same time that Ed took to the air. We danced a classic glass-off for the next hour, reveling in the starkly clear air, warm sun and geologic formations that surrounded us. Glancing to the NW, I could make out Newman and Picacho Peaks; to the SE past the Huachucas to Naco peak in Mexico. The total span, about 125 miles. Magnificent.

Congrats to Stu and Andy who both enjoyed their first Box Canyon flights.