[Flight Articles for Presidents Weekend 2012]   Weather Archive for [Friday 2/17/12] & [Monday 2/20/12]

Aaron LaPlante
Saturday, 2/18/12

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pokin in, out, above and below saturday
by Aaron » Posted Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:12 pm

piled in the fly above all people mover and got up to launch with many clouds forming below us out front. doug e fresh launched first and climbed up easily and headed over to the sun at RR where he got to a higher cloudbase, maybe 3500 or so. master bader and this cracka beat bushes below launch for a bit before gittin a hundy over and heading to RR. never got much above 3300 but the whispys were way cool and fun and headed to cathedral in a headwind. spent most of my flight playing over there in the shade trying to get at least 2500 to try to go one way or another. sung some whitney houston songs to the hikers on inspiration point and finally got up to the white room and headed back to the knob under the tit. climbed up the tit slowly but cloudbase was filling in quickly and lowering. made one more play for RR but got rejected in all the lowering shade. one more fatty at the holy hills and made sure the compass was pointing south as i tasted the good stuff. popped out near parma above most all the white marshmellows around and hit that whitney high note!!! uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, good clean fun!! seems the cloudbase soon was solid about 2200 up and down the range and almost all the way out to the coast flushing everyone.