I got world famous hang gliding pilot Monte as my "RIO" today aboard the Duo Discus. We towed to the nicest looking developed sky anyone has ever seen above the foothills West of WSC. When we got there we found, yes, absolutely nothing. We moved out to the valley, blundered into a much needed blue thermal before the Cu started popping to help us out.
Thank you cummie.
Once high enough we pushed back under the beautiful clouds above the hills.
Again, no joy, back to the valley for lift. We tried this technique again, then again and then a few more times before deciding to fly with all the smart pilots in the valley. Here "DDS" is pulling up on our "six" in this sweat thermal.
Monte, this bogey is all over me, he's got missile lock on me!
We ended up with several hours and a fun valley day as we scratched our heads looking up at the big teaser over the hills.
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Thanks for the ride Matt!! The sailplane gaggle flying was quite exciting!
I would never have believed such good looking clouds were producing little to no lift over the mountains.
I think we scored the high altitude of the day when we got a little above CB on that blue thermal!
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