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I'm getting used to the idea that the launch will be socked in by the time we
arrive. This morning we are a little later than the day before, and arrive
around 9 AM. The cu's, of course, are forming on the hillsides which is why we
are in clouds. The sky is a mixed bag out over the valley, but it looks
promising.

The task committee calls a sixty five kilometer task with three turnpoints out
to the east side of the valley after a run up the range to the north. The goal
is the ultralight field near Roldanillo. The first start time (of three) is
11:45 AM, and the pilot briefing ends at 11:05.

I suit up immediately after the pilot briefing and move over from my setup spot
next to the front (north launch) of the corridor and wait to see if the wind
comes up. It doesn't. I go over to the south launch, the wind is light up the
face, very light. I decline the chance to launch. I'll have to make my own wind
if I want to get off.

I take off my  gear and take some of my clothes off and wait to see if the
conditions will improve. A few pilots take off in the light conditions, but it
is a very slow launch as many decline. The line switches back and forth from
north to south as a trickle comes up here and there. Mitch takes off on the
south side.

A few take off on the north and then suddenly it is coming in straight for
David. He gets off and the flag goes sideways again. The launches slow to a
crawl.

Half the pilots have launched in light to light cross conditions with only one
or two with the wind actually coming in. The rest are waiting for better
conditions. I put my gear back on for the third time and step to the south
launch where there is a trickle from the left.

Suddenly it is coming up the north face. I turn around and follow four pilots
off quickly. The last start clock was twenty minutes previous to my launch.

All five of us fly out to the valley to a pilot turning just before Roldanillo.
I climb up to cloudbase at 7,000' and enter the thirteen kilometer start
cylinder at 12:45. It's a quick run in the best lift of the day down the
range to the tower turnpoint and start point and then it gets quite slow going
back to the south as I try the east facing hill sides first, which worked so
well on the way down when I was flying above the ridge line.

I finally am forced out into the valley where there are few cu's and it
seems just the prayer of getting up. Down to 700' AGL, my prayers are answered
and I climb out to 6,600' (the valley floor is 3,000'). There are cu's just off
the course line to the south and I head for them, passing up pilots that were
much higher than me at the turnpoint.

I make to the cu's and climb in them watching a paraglider ahead of me and
another hang glider. Jumping to the third cu's in a tow I connect with the
paraglider and we climb to cloud base at 7,100' only 4 km out from the next
turnpoint at the sugar mill.

Taking the turnpoint I head north with the next prospect for cu's uncomfortably
far away. Not finding much a head for a building cu to the east of the highway.
I'm not at all sure that I will make it there. I come into a landing area at
400' next to a set of high tension power lines. There is lift at the edge of the
field and I just hang in it hoping for it to improve. It does and I climb over
the power lines to 7,500'. I'm not trying to go fast given my late start, just
trying to make goal.

I can see cu's ahead, some over a small fire, to the right of the course line. I
head to the one closest to the course line and there is indeed lift under it. I
climb back to 7,500' and the 6030 says I have the goal made around the next
turnpoint.

I stop for 900' 3 kilometers from goal and make goal with 700'.

Seven pilots will make goal. Claudia, who launched last long after me, comes in
way late, taking four hours to complete the task. David almost lands and has a
slow time losing the day and the competition to Daniel. Mitch has a fast time
and comes in third ahead of Raul and Mike.