Folks from far and wide showed up at Jacks yesterday. Mark and I met up at the Pulpit and caravanned the extra hour North to Jacks arriving at about 1:30. To our surprise there were 10 other pilots there from the Hyner and Pittsburg crews along with a bunch of spectators. A high cirrus layer was threatening to shut things down and it didn't really look soarable when we got there. But pretty soon Dave launched and proved us wrong by getting above the ridge although he did have to work for it. I guess Jack's is so steep it doesn't take much wind to get enough lift to soar. Soon he found a thermal and became a speck so the lemmings rushed to follow. I got off around 3:00 and it was easy flying, the ridge was working and the thermals were plentiful. Get high and cold, come down and warm up, lather, rinse, repeat. I flew until my hands wouldn't warm up anymore and headed out to land. I boated around in net-zero sink at 1K AGL over the field for 10 minutes before finding some decent sink to core. Finally I touched down with a nice flare at 5:00 for 2 hours in the air, topping out at 2,300' over. As I finished breaking down Pete L. and Pat H. landed with everyone thinking they were the last to land. Then they realized Mark was nowhere to be found. "Does he have a cell phone? A radio? We have to find Mark!" LOL!! You guys don't know Mark very well do you?! Another 15 minutes later here comes Mark cruising back up the ridge from the North, then nailing the landing. Awesome day! There's nothing better than getting a great flight at a new (to you) site.
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