Day 4. Long ass task.
Made goal today. About 8-10 in. Mads probably won the day.
More blogging in the morning.
Edit:
86 km task called yesterday. Basically south to a town called Levan. A couple of turn points were added in order to avoid the 1 nautical mile no fly zone from the fires the day before. This essentially pushed us out over the flats while making the crossing to Spanish fork.
Timed the start perfectly and exited the start cylinder seconds after 2:30 pm. After tagging the second turnpoint out in the flats, I watched Mads go straight back to the mountains. The rest of us continued across the flats for the more direct route. It should have worked. It didn't. We got stuck for a good 40 minutes next to the wind generators and watched Mads fly over our heads deep into the terrain.
Bill was saying the terrain works, it just looks intimidating. He took the flats route too. After scratching for a long time, we finally got some height to move on. After 2.5 hours, we had only completed 50% of the route. We were gliding at about 25-30 km/h with plenty of bar in to the wind. The last half of the course was much faster as it was getting close to the end of the day and things were getting more buoyant. Final glide was from 17km out at 12:1.
There was a fork in the flight. Brad, Eric, Bill, Andy, Brett and I were all together about 25 kms out. Eric and Brad got a piece of a thermal that the rest of us couldn't get. Bill peeled back toward the mountains while Brett and Andy followed Brad and Eric down the valley. I decided the safer, albeit slower route would be to go to the mountains with Bill. Bill had to go deep while I went half way before hitting a screamer that took me to 3600m. I headed to goal in hopes that the expected tail wind would push me in. It was a headwind all the way to goal! Lucky for me, there was a lot of lift all the way in.
Results are here
More blogging in the morning.
Edit:
86 km task called yesterday. Basically south to a town called Levan. A couple of turn points were added in order to avoid the 1 nautical mile no fly zone from the fires the day before. This essentially pushed us out over the flats while making the crossing to Spanish fork.
Timed the start perfectly and exited the start cylinder seconds after 2:30 pm. After tagging the second turnpoint out in the flats, I watched Mads go straight back to the mountains. The rest of us continued across the flats for the more direct route. It should have worked. It didn't. We got stuck for a good 40 minutes next to the wind generators and watched Mads fly over our heads deep into the terrain.
Bill was saying the terrain works, it just looks intimidating. He took the flats route too. After scratching for a long time, we finally got some height to move on. After 2.5 hours, we had only completed 50% of the route. We were gliding at about 25-30 km/h with plenty of bar in to the wind. The last half of the course was much faster as it was getting close to the end of the day and things were getting more buoyant. Final glide was from 17km out at 12:1.
There was a fork in the flight. Brad, Eric, Bill, Andy, Brett and I were all together about 25 kms out. Eric and Brad got a piece of a thermal that the rest of us couldn't get. Bill peeled back toward the mountains while Brett and Andy followed Brad and Eric down the valley. I decided the safer, albeit slower route would be to go to the mountains with Bill. Bill had to go deep while I went half way before hitting a screamer that took me to 3600m. I headed to goal in hopes that the expected tail wind would push me in. It was a headwind all the way to goal! Lucky for me, there was a lot of lift all the way in.
Results are here
posted by benyl at 8/19/2009 10:30:00 PM
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