Pilots took a relaxed approach but we got in the air quickly. The
lift was only 100 fpm until we got high and then it improved. We climbed to
5,000' and cloud base. Plenty of cloud suck at the top. I headed out with Cory
and either Matt or Jeff. I moved ahead and kept going past Mascotte to get under
nice looking clouds west of highway 33 after a 10 kilometer glide.

The lift was not what I hoped for but I was still well over 3,000'. I went
looking for something more than 75 fpm. That just brought me further down and I
went on a hard search stopping for just a little over zero at 1,800'. I stayed
in it until finally it turned on to 300 fpm and climbed to 4,800'. I had lost
the two pilots I was with and hopefully helping.

Plenty of cu's ahead and it was easy to climb high to 5,200' just before the
turnpoint at the Turnpike. Cory and another pilot were way north of the Turnpike
and Greg and Tom came in under about 1,000' below.

With all that altitude it was easy to head southwest to the next turnpoint. Dave
and another pilot were low out on this leg.

When I got to Center Hill I could see a rain shower/cell about 20 kilometers to
the west. There was a lot of shading to the west, but still patches of sunlight
east of the cell and some dark clouds east of the cell. I flew over the town of
Webster at 1,600' and found very sweet lift at 100 fpm in the shade. It was so
smooth and there was no gust from the cell to the west. The wind was 4 mph out
of the west.

As the cell dissipated I headed out at 4,000' to the west to get the optimized
turnpoint at 7 km radius. There was strong lift right at the turnpoint to
4,500'. It looked really good.

With nice clouds ahead I found good lift to 5,300' and headed for the turnpoint
at the northeast end of the Green Swamp. I was hoping earlier to get rid of this
turnpoint as it was right in line with the last leg and I wanted to go over the
Green Swamp instead and there were nice cu's there.

As I approached the next turnpoint I could see that there were very few cu's
between it and Quest Air. There was a cu to the right over the Green Swamp but
then I saw Cory turning sharply to my northeast over the nursery. I headed for
him.

Missed the lift there and the cu next to him disappeared. Ran to the south to
get under a cu in the Green Swamp but came in too low and couldn't go too deep
into the Swamp. Landed in a long field next to Sloan's Ridge Road at a farm that
I very often bicycle past. Had a great time with the farmer and his friends.

Mick Howard made it in. Cory did not. Greg and Larry made it back.

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