These guys seem to like the land of the One Day Cricket greats
5th march. wit hthe promising weather outlook Gavin set us a 500km down south, then back to mount cook, then home to omarama. We took a tow and released quite low in a good thermal rising up mt terrible. at 6500 we ventured out and after a bit of stooging around with 2 other duo discus' and contacted quite strong wave. After bumming around at 15,000 waiting for other gliders to catch up we lost contact with the wave, and headed out in search of this newfound (well to me anyway) form of lift. and we kept searching, and we kept searching, and then we looked behind us, and then we said bugger, well i did, gavin is what id call optomistic. I scampered back to the ridge (which was now above us) only to find it wasnt really working, which was good as one of my objectives was to practice on the ridges. The rest of the flight we spent cruising around ridges and mountains, mostly at or below ridge top height. Ive got to admit i found myself fairly nervous as we glid down unlandable valleys (unless you like rocky creek beds or lakes) to ridges that we hoped wernt being supressed by wave. Todd is still up, they were having a ball at 15000 belting down south last time i heard. in all, damn good fun. im getting this undeniable feeling that we all may be living on the wrong side of the tasman, mountains to fly on in summer and ski on in winter. it s just a feeling, but yet to be confirmed. james. _______________________________________________ Augc-people mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, visit http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/options/augc-people Enter your email address (no password required) and click the 'Unsubscribe' button. Follow the instructions in the email that will be sent to you to confirm. Direct enquiries to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
