Tekoa to Bonners Ferry : 112 xc miles -4-30-15

Found more wind than forecast. Lift wasnt very high. Didnt think much of the day as producing a big flight. It was very rough. I wanted to land about 16 miles onto the flight and was told it was "very active" on the ground "(big dustys all over the place")…………… I guess I'll tough it out.
Glad I did.
Kept grinding away at it thinking "well I can try for Athol" and thought I was going to be landing there as I approached it.
Still  a bit of alt left I knew there was a nice field I've landed at before near Cocolalla lake.  Getting there, found a slow climb giving me enough to work towards Sagle ID.
Arriving at the edge of the lake I thought that was it for the flight. I was low, there was cloud cover, wind had picked up a bit more.
Had a nice LZ picked out, Theresa was there and confirmed it was good (thank you ;-) I wasn't giving up and some searching and a couple of bumps lead to a climb.
It was slow again with a lot of drift, as I got to the edge of the lake came the decision, push back into the wind or hang with it, hope I dont hit sink and drag my ass across low.....
Onward I went, looked like I could make the fields on the other side after topping out the climb (a whopping 4900', surface is about 2100')
On the other side, the LZ I picked looked good. I was still in search mode. Found another slow drifting climb. Looked like there were some potential Lz's ahead so I pushed on.
This would continue for the next 30 miles, never getting over 5000'  asl. Very stressful when flying unfamiliar areas with limited LZ's and a rigid.
Thank you Theresa, for being there!  

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