Dust Devil Dash - September 10

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 5:02:50 PM UTC-7, JS wrote:
More than likely this will be the score sheet.
Kevin did it again!
Jim

Pos Pilot Landing Glider/ID SM/Hcp Dist
1 Kevin Wayt Lake County, OR Ventus C-17.6 RW 499.1/436.21
2 T.Honikman/T.Streppel Cedarville, CA Stemme S10 TH 455.4/403.48
3 Tom Serkowski Fall River Mills, CA ASW-27B 5Z 439.3/385.71
4 Tom Riley Nervino, CA American Spirit TR 342.7/322.82
5 Tom Coussens Truckee, CA PIK-20D Z9 305.9/290.61
6 Doug Fronius Truckee, CA ASW-20 NXS 305.9/279.29
7 Jim Neff Field SE of Mammoth SGS-1-26E 552 161.0/257.60
8 Donald Buman Douglas Co Arp, NV LS-6c 7 278.3/242.96
9 Bill Laningham Bishop, CA ASW-24 DB 157.6/148.14
10 Mike Stryker Olancha, CA SGS1-36 17Q 85.7/112.61
11 Niv Levy Olancha, CA ASW-15 N 85.7/85.70
12 Ron Hodge California City SGS1-26D 417 23.0/36.80

Way to go Kevin!

He and I left the start thermal at the same time and flew together for the first 20-30 miles then split up to go up opposite sides of the Sierras. Rejoined at Mammoth and added Terry/Thorsten to the group. The three ships then flew loose formation to Susanville before splitting up.

I saw a few wisps forming ahead on a path to Mt Shasta, so decided to try reaching it. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that apparently marine air infiltrated the high ground east of Redding and couldn't find any more thermal lift. Worked some ridge lift on a couple hills before throwing in the towel and landing at Fall River Mills.

Kevin, as is often the case, managed to time his final glide to arrive just a couple minutes before sunset!

5Z