On Sep 21, 3:52*pm, danlj wrote:
I am writing this to ask experienced soaring pilots to correct me
where you have acquired different wisdom, or your local conditions are
different, or where you have something more to add.

Thanks for passing on this thread, Dan. Interesting discussion. About
the only thing in addition that comes to mind is that my mind changed
recently on the forest issue. Not that I want to make a habit of
flying over large tracts of forest, but the conditions seemed right to
me at the time a month ago when I flew to Escanaba, MI. For the last
90 or so miles the terrain was 90% forest. There was also very nice
lift. I was by no means scratching as you can tell--
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...htId=840249634.
Perhaps this was similar to one of the people commenting on your
thread about forests. With the exception that this was nearly purely
forest, and the lift was good. I wonder if indeed the lift was good
over this forest because it was later in the day?

Chris Prince