https://www.facebook.com/jeff.shapiro.5/posts/2111358932270364

Jeff writes:

Woke up this morning and hiked up to a beautiful launch. Took
around three hours but the payoff was an epic peak top with some nice take off
options, proven by birds circling when I arrived. I pulled the wing up as soon
as clouds started forming and climbed to base with two Griffon vultures.

Three ridge lines later, it seemed like it was going to be an epic day. Just
before 1:30pm, the clouds started exploding and overdevelopment seemed in full
effect. Not wanting a repeat of yesterday, I spiraled down and landed. In
hindsight, I should have been patient and taken one more climb to get over the
next peak (saving me what ended up being around 18 kilometers of
walking/running). Another mistake and another lesson.

It was a super fun hike and flight and the afternoon did get wild with hail,
heavy rain and lots of lightning. I think I ended running somewhere between
30-40 k after landing to get to a town on course, for the night.

Dustin Martin and Huntley Badger were supporting in the van and keeping morale
high with water, food and of course, heckling. This type of race has many
decisions each day that hold varying levels of consequence. There’s so much to
learn. One step at a time.

I'm going around a tunnel since going through tunnels is cheating.