Some conflicted forecasts said it could be bad or just not so good to the south of the tow road. The sky looked fantastic as we set up.
Had a great tow but released in the absolutely worst place if something goes wrong……. well it did, no re-wind. The tow line dropped down onto a line of trees (the only ones on the road) and some old barb wire fence. I cant believe I did that. Jorge had to walk the 1.5 miles down to get the rewind going & finish helping to get the rest of the line out.
40 min later (so sorry guys) Jorge was up. I had pushed down to Rosailia where I found broken & weak lift. The sky didn’t look as good either.
Gave up on the push south & headed east. Jorge was pushing east also. Into a blue hole end ended up decking it from 7700’ on what was a final glide.
Got up in a good thermal at the home site Tekoa & was going to push south in the mtns.
After getting near Tensed gave up on going south. It just wasn’t looking good. Headed NE thinking I could work the mtns & get to St Maries. After getting low(ish) over no mans land I was going to give up on the idea & keep going N (At least there were LZ’s that direction.
Getting nearish Plummer I got a climb that was good enough to get me to St Maries. And so I went.
Hell of a great day! (Thanks Conrad for the retrieve) Link to the flight
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