Dave Snowden and wedgie
Task 3 Lake Keepit
Task 3 again, finally high enough to take photos!
nice clouds
Justin Post, near a cloud, yesterday
Justin getting my landing thermal, diont go very far but a nice flight.
my landing paddock again
Task 4, one thermal from Borah, there's about 20 speck sized gliders in front of me if you squint. Got up from the leading edge of the cloud shadow.
same as the last shot
Looking crosswind to the south, the sensible course to avoid mai hai valley, I didnt go that way.
fuzzy shot of the canyon after i climbed out
A shot of the mai hai? valley, bad place to land, and in the distance rainstorms (or cumulus congestus according to godfrey over Mt Kaputar.
another shot of the rain on Mt Kaputar, I skirted round the edge of the cloud, then dipped under a little heading for a sunny patch on the ground and got nailed by sink. 50km, half way to goal.
View along the courseline after crossing the canyon, looks good, bitumen road and plenty of sun, how did I not make it? I landed in the plowed field in the middle of the pic, 1200fpm sink.
looking back at my path across the my hy valley, I got a zero on the last green field at about 500ft agl, top left of the picture, and sort of scraped over the valley lip in it, immediately lost it, but got a good climb off one of the forested spurs. The guy with me a few feet below flew straight across and landed in those little fields in the bottom. Justin said he saw a bunch of gliders who went round ridge soar in along the cliffs in the middle of the pic.
Task 4- Mt kaputar storm, nothing to worry about we were told, just north of the course line.
Task 4 - another view of my clear run to goal, where I didnt make it
task 4 - final glidish, with map
Task 5, The farm Justin landed on running from rain, you can see the rocketship cumulus clouds behind. I didn't take any photos in the air this day, I was first to launch, first to base, and first to deck out on course.
The rain brought a lot of people down on task 5 and we filled up the bus.
Task 6, sunshine, nice clouds, and a bastard of a cross/headwind. This is the first valley crossing east of Borah
Task 6, the range on the other side of the valley running north from Manilla, I tried to get here high and succeeded, getting a thermal off the ridge line.
Cu Nims in the sunset at the presentation dinner
more cunims
presentation - dark
Dave Snowden, just after Paul's reserve chuck, this is where Paul span
snowy again, on new aerodyne blaster
enough of snowy already
aerodyne blaster
Task 2-Gaggle over Manilla
distant gaggle
gaggle
gaggle again
gaggle over manilla town centre task 2
gaggle over manilla, task 2
Task 3- finally at cloudbase
Task 3, Looking back at Justin and Mt Borah West face
Another shot of Justin behind me (didnt happen too often)
task 3 landing field, sunny on top of a hill, thatll be why everyone behind me got a thermal off it.
that bloody field again, justin as a speck if you look carefully
Justin on final glide, task 3
close up of a better shot from task 3
JAlbum 3.2