There are no cu's to the north so Larry and I decide on a task
first south southeast to Wallaby first then back north up to Baron and home to
Quest Air. The wind is forecasted to be 8 ro 11 mph out of the west. Larry is
towed up first and by the time I get towed to a forming cu to the west northwest
I hear that he is low and struggling to find lift.

There is little to none under the cloud I pin off under so I head back toward
Quest just finding little bits and pieces of lift. Down to 1,200' I get in 80
fpm and hang tight with it. Larry climbs to the south and gets to cloud base at
2,800'. It's almost 2 PM and cloud base is way too low for much of a cross
country effort. But we're staying up so we keep staying up.

Larry heads back west to Quest Air but gets down to 1,000' and then further and
has to land while I climb at 90 fpm to 2,500' drifting way to the east. Larry is
considering whether to come back up and join me.

I fly back to the west over Quest and work 15 fpm at 1,800' before heading for a
cloud a kilometer to the west southwest. I fall like a rock and come back at
900' to find 100 fpm. Larry thinks that I'm doing well so he gets himself towed
up.

I see Larry turning to my south and join him. I climb to over 3,000' before
heading south. He hangs in there and climbs to cloud base at 3,700'. I'm all of
two kilometers away from Quest and I've been flying for about an hour.

The sky is full of cu's but they don't seem, to mark any lift. I only find lift
in the blue. I head south under a long line of clouds and find nothing until I'm
seven kilometers from Quest and then find 50 fpm again in broken lift to 2,400'.

I turn northeast to get under Larry who is three kilometers back, but don't find
anything worth turning in. Soon I'm over a thousand acre field and happy to land
in a very pleasant area. Larry will turn back also and land just east of highway
33 a couple of miles from me. Sue has an easy retrieve day.

All the pilots who took off soon after I launched landed long before I did.
Later pilots who launched landed quickly also. Finally later in the day the
conditions improved and George Adams, at least, had a good day flying after
landing earlier.

The west wind was the major culprit, but I'm not sure why. There was a western
sea breeze later. Perhaps it started earlier than I thought.