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Aaron LaPlante
Friday, 4/27/12

Skyport to Ellings Park Training Hill
about 7 miles

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by Aaron » Posted Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:21 pm

wasnt planning on flying today due to all the forecasted north, but Grant K rang me at 11 all fired up to fly. i asked him if he looked at the weather, and he said he called debbie a couple days ago and it seemed ok(hmmmm), anyways that was good enough for me so i put in my half day notice and met him 20 minutes later at parma. he stashed his dirtbike there for retrieve. the ridgeline was still 5-10 otb but eliminator was coming in nice. climbed slowly at launch to a couple hundy over and putted over to RR. It seemed like ole mother nature was a chained down beast trying to break loose. the air was never scary, but definitively swirly and odd. seemed like the wind was different directions at different layers and spots. kept topping at 3500, probably could have got higher if i would have pushed into the terrain but i wanted to give her room to thrash her pissy head about. after fishbowling around with Grant on his HG i putted over town. Well Tom your forecasted riveria convergence was a day early. not sure how you figure that out, but its a little eerie ;) anyways surfed the seams with grant seeing if we could take it anywhere. it had defined ends at sycamore canyon to the east and the mission to the west, but wide. from parma to the front of the riveria, touching 3000 at times. super fun watching grant speedfly from one side to the other wangin it up. i felt like a paraparker just boatin around twiddlin my thumbs as he ripped around. after a while we both took about 2900 and headed to the training hill. We both arrived at the same time at about 1000 feet. super fun interesting conditions. thanks to