Well it’s a lot tougher out there than I thought. The sky is gorgeous, but the flats are proving tricky and we’ve yet to get one of the Pro Division guys back at Monroet to top land. Many of the Adventure pilots have tagged the Joseph turnpoint but it’s hard […]
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Once again a gaggle of Adventure pilots are leading the charge and pushing out to tag the Joseph cylinder, about 10 km across the valley. From there they have to return to Monroe, then repeat it again.
There is much deliberation on launch if its “ON” even with big beautiful cumulus that have been building for over 90 minutes. Your race director is about to grab someone’s gear and get in the sky! Conditions look epic, and finally a few brave souls are showing the rest of […]
The tasks are set, our Colorado crew crushed it to the Monroe launch once again, and Eric Klammer is first to launch three days in a row, today in a remarkable 52 minutes! It was blowing lightly over the back but that didn’t phase Eric and he styled it off […]
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much stoke and so many smiles at a flying competition. In fact I know I haven’t. Yesterday’s Adventure Division leading athletes were first to the top, first to launch, immediately dialed up to cloudbase several thousand feet above 10,000′ Mt Edna, stylishly showing […]
It’s getting really fun at the goal field at the Panguitch airport. We just had a run off between Reavis on the ground, and Jason in the air. Jason got him by the hair of his chubby chin chin!
When James landed, a stones throw into goal before Jesse Williams he said, “that was a religious experience!!”What a great day of racing and there’s still several pilots fighting hard to make it in. Patience is the name of the game and taking every bit of lift you can as […]
Bill Belcourt somehow figured out a way. As several pilots have hit the deck on the way to goal at the Panguitch airport Bill got out front and stayed there and has just saved his feet from additional blisters. Matt Dadam has just landed a few hundred meters short, preserving […]
Well it’s gone from gangbusters to breaking up the gang. Those pushing out to TP 5 left with good height but they are pushing a west head wind and coming to the TP with very little height to work with. William Pardis and Bill Belcourt tagged the turnpoint at nearly […]
The Pro Division pilots are all within less than 8 km from the lead to the back. They all had to land at the third tp near the Junction launch and by the time I raced up to see if they needed anything just about all of them were back […]