Saturday, 6/1/2013 [Weather] and [Flight Articles] by [Bob Anderson] & [Sundowner] [Aaron LaPlante] [Photos]

Aaron LaPlante
Saturday, 6/1/13

Santa Barbara Inversion

Article copied from: http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2836#p8500
Posted by Aaron » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:53 am

so for that same ole heat wave day we tried our luck at ej bowl. la cumbre reported it 10 degrees hotter then monticito foothills but we thought maybe it would flip by noon due to the 'heat wave'. we were way wrong, it was hotter then a polar bear in the sahara up there and blowing stiff ENE to 20mph at times. we should have gone to school on the fact that all the vultures were soaring the east and north east faces of la cumbre and never getting above the top. Sometimes it would blow straight south but trial and error proved that to be an illusion of rotor. bart attempted launch in a straight 10-12 and ended up in the bushes. hmmmm, he tried again and got airborne then went wildly parachutal sliding down below the vultures den rockpile before getting it flying again. he hung onto the rodeo and angled towards cathedral where he hit a convergence that dug him out of the canyon and gave him a west wind that provided a bump free glide to parma. i felt bad and didnt see that coming as i thought once he got away from launch he would be fine. never listen to me, or at least dont go first if it looks questionable ;) that was enough for the rest of us, so we drove down and grabbed bo's truck at skyport as he did a tandem forward with no wind for an uneventful sledder to parma.