Sat Flying at Box
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I'm tentatively planning on flying Box mid-day Saturday. (I need to be home around 4pm). Conditions look light, s/sw @ 6-5mph in valley. I'm hoping for thermals to take me to the top - like last Sunday. Glass off should be perfect later in the afternoon.
Right now I'm planning to be in the Lz by 11am., and in the air by 12:30pm. (unless things change drastically).
Who's coming? 906-0182.
Gunter
Right now I'm planning to be in the Lz by 11am., and in the air by 12:30pm. (unless things change drastically).
Who's coming? 906-0182.
Gunter
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Sat. Flying Report
The short version: hiked up, sled ride to base of hill.
The long version: hiked up for an hour, thermals every 10-15 min's, light wind, if you didn't catch the beginning of a long thermal you sunk out.
Saw two PPG's drive down Santa Rita road - don't know who it was or if they flew.
Was still a nice hike though, and air time of 4 min., for both John and I.
The long version: hiked up for an hour, thermals every 10-15 min's, light wind, if you didn't catch the beginning of a long thermal you sunk out.
Saw two PPG's drive down Santa Rita road - don't know who it was or if they flew.
Was still a nice hike though, and air time of 4 min., for both John and I.
Ed and I saw John in the LZ when we arrived at Box, but Gunter had already left. Ed had already been hiking for a while by the time I got started, and he was laying his glider out on the SW side of the first knoll when I arrived just in time to help him move to the NW side as the wind switched. A sucker cycle finally came through that died just as Ed turned to run, ending in an aborted launch and Ed and the glider a few paces down the hill and the glider off in sumac and yucca. We extracted the glider and got it back on launch and then I laid out with nary a puff up the hill. I ended up with a forward launch on the NW side and a sled ride after couple of fruitless passes down the hill. Ed says the wind picked up some before dark but he found some line-throughs in his risers and wasn't able to sort it out in the short time before darkness. Ed ended up hiking down with Wrangler and JJ. Shirley and I waited for him under a brilliant Milky Way.
one has to wonder
One has to wonder what a hike to the top would have been rewarded with?