On Friday Landon and I met up with Cody on launch at Short Divide. Conditions looked great at 85 degrees, SW winds 16-18, and some nice puffy cumulus overhead.
Landon and I launched first into some moderately strong thermals mixed in with some definite areas of sink. This translated into some July rodeo-airtime! About 10 minutes later Cody launched and we took turns showing each other the thermals, until Cody hooked one that stayed together well enough for him to follow it back and bench up over Clarkston Peak. Landon and I worked the same thermal, but fell out of it and had to scoot back out front. Cody found the usually reliable lift on the upper mountains a bit sketchy. By now Landon was getting a little woozy from the "textured" air and tight turns, so we descended to a nice wheel-landing below, while Cody did some air-playin' above, and eventually joined the "early-landers" in the LZ below. With this flight, Landon just passed 10 hours of airtime! It was a very nice "day before the 4th of July" flight.
Airtime: 50 minutes x 2!
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