9:30 AM visible satellite.

A lot less cumulus development near Zapata (located just north of horizontal
portion of the Mexico/Texas border in the south east). A front line northwest of
Abilene.

Pete Lehmann launched at 9:25 AM but went down seventeen miles out. Says that he
was climbing good with 300 fpm lift, but got cocky and went down trying to cross
streets. Mike off at 9:47 Am after weaklink break on first attempt. Climbing at
2,000' twenty miles out at 10:40 AM. Got to past Laredo at 11:45 AM. Went down
sixty miles out before 1 PM as it got blue (which was clear from the satellite
photos) and turbulent. That would put him just before the big stretch of
Mesquite up highway 83.

Mike writes:

I got drilled. I had been debating on calling it a day a couple of
times before, but near the end I just got flushed. Except for mechanical
turbulence down low it wasn't bad. In the end it just felt like a change of air
mass.

The sink was generally light and it was easy to change lines and get out of the
sink, until going on glide from a good climb northeast of Laredo where the air
was quite textured and going down fast relative for the day (400 fpm - 600 fpm).

The clouds ended at the last climb and I was being quite conservative. It was
obvious there was a change. I made a large course line change towards some wisps
to the west, maybe should have gone straight downwind, but with memories of
mesquite and deer fences, I landed on the last place on the south side of the
mesquite.