Pretty crappy weather for last weekend. We had winds of 25mph out of the SW in the morning, with drizzle all around. By noon we had a full on downpour. Once that cleared, the wind shifted to 15mph out of the NW. The crowd was smallish, because of the conditions. Still we had a fun time. No major tragedies. Everyone hoping for good wind and no rain next week.

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We’re on roll. Nice breeze on the East Slope, about 10-12mph. Again, we had a large crowd of flyers. As you can expect, there was large amount of planes in the air. Lots of minor mid-airs and near misses. There were lots of big planes up (Acacia, Schwing, Blanik, etc) and surprisingly no mid-airs for them.

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Another good weekend. That’s two in a row! Woo hoo! This time we switched bowls, had the NE bowl with 12-15mph winds. Lift was great thanks to the wind staying steady in speed and direction. An added bonus were large thermals rolling in at the same time. Several times I noted slopers specked out because of the slope lift/thermal combos rolling through. We had a large crowd, lots of new members and many of our snowbirds were up. Paul debuted his “new”Zipper. It was flying great until a mid-air with Tom. That was the only major tragedy of the day.
Hoping for even a better next weekend.
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This week we had a winner. 15-20mph in the SE bowl. All the big iron came out and we had a crowd commensurate to the conditions (16-18). Traffic was heavy on the slope, with 10 planes up at a time. I was amazed there were no mid-airs. When 2PM came around, I think everyone left with a smile on their face.
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I took a short vacation last week, so I missed last week’s fun. This week I got up there late. I didn’t miss too much. We had a small crowd (8) and the air was light. Also, we had rain threatening us from the South, but it never appeared. The wind direction put us in the SE bowl and we relied on thermals to get out or off the slope.
Mike
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