Being Tax Day gliders were heading for the hills when I arrived at WSC. I jumped into"Juliet-Hotel" and towed to Indian Valley where I worked North towards East Park Resevoir under a weak cloud street.
The clouds dried up, the lift weakened and I was 20 miles out, low in the foothills. After an hour of this my fun meter was pegged.
I moved towards the valley and decided to work lift closer to home. Fortunately everyone else had the same idea and I found some good pilots to follow around the valley.
Although, occasionally I would lead.
There were six sailplanes out helping locate thermals and we got in some fun gaggles.
As the lift gradually died in the late afternoon I found myself needing to stay within sight of the airport towards the end of this 4-1/4 hour flight and they questioned if I was going for a low altitude duration record.
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