OMG.

The day looked similar to days before but the air seemed cooler and there was a little more blue sky showing and cumulus starting to form early with no wind to speak of. 

Launch was busy with the comp but not nearly so much as the weekend was. We arrived with plenty of time to get ready and go before the competitors. 

I was feeling good despite a somewhat sleepless night.  A light breakfast and the hike to launch kicked me into gear. 

Everyone got off the hill and we gaggled to cloud base and bobbed around until we were all high and ready to go. First leg was to La Union and a few landed there.  

Then we patiently waited for the flats to throw us a bone. We eventually crossed, broke into a few groups but then rallied together and got even higher than before.  We headed south to  Sarzal then Brad pushed to the valley and found us a beauty of a climb, taking us to our altitude limit of 8 grand. We headed back north, tagged another climb a la Bradley and then cross wind back to La Union for all but one who landed safely just short. Of the two pilots I was guiding one made the whole trip and the other landed earlier at La Union. 

Everyone seems to have achieved personal bests in one way or more on today's 3.5 hour flight. 

Cheers!

ONE

The day started well and ended well.

I had 3 people to guide and we all followed the comp pilots towards La Union and then back past launch to Roldanillo where we all landed together.

The comp went further but everyone was tired and hungry in our group so we chose to take it easy on the first day Retrieve was upon us just as I finished packing

Soon we were all sitting around tables eating a huge meal near the soccer field back in La Union. 

Cheers!