After a whole 12 hours without rain the
field had drained sufficiently to operate. Only able to pull one
cable up the hill we retrieved it where it fell; so before the
weather clamped some slick driving permitted a couple of handfuls of
launches. The ridge to the south intermittently shed
orographic clag so launch heights ranged from 700 to 2000 feet
depending upon which side of a cloud you happen to be. The lucky ones
had spectacular runs through feather walled canyons.
Running out of willing pilots before
running out of weather meant everything was put away dry, so all in
all a moderately successful day. Somehow the quality of flights
seemed to be secondary to the fact that we were able to fly at all.
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