"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Devil O.D.

With an abundance of moisture and instability, good soaring conditions looked possible on this post-frontal day. However, too much of a good thing is sometimes bad as the Devil produced gluttonous proportions of sun blocking clouds. Mike and I arrived to find an overcast sky with no cycles and realized the Devil had O.D. We tried to wait it out but finally ran off Juniper Launch in close succession into the breathless sky.
I stared at my variometer hoping for luck and some other number besides -200 fpm.
Mike's down at the 1000 Footer just beyond the white van and I'm soon to join him in that tall wet grass after a sled ride under the overdeveloped sky.

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