Saturday, 10/26/2013 [Weather] and [Flight Articles] by [Brendan] [Aaron] [Sundowner] [Southside] [Dave Teal] [Ken Howells]

Aaron LaPlante aka galleta Saturday, 10/26/2013 EJ's to the Tee

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Posted by galleta » Sat Oct 26, 2013 7:57 pm

a group of us went up to ej bowl, where we had pretty strong ese conditions and pretty much the same temps as down below. 1 barely made parma, 1 barely made st. marys, 1 landed near botanical gardens, and the other 4 of us went right. we all ridge soared between ej and la cumbre, we touched 4k a few times, lompoc J hit 4400 once. we should have continued along the ridge to altenator but thought westbowl would work and didnt want to get pinned in the back. 4 of us glided to westbowl and then 4 of us landed within 10 minutes of each other shortly after at the T. hmmmmm. The metal heads looked like they were soaring good at back of the rack later on. one falcon scooted out from back there, so it may have been good for panties too. interesting flight, hopefully the oat crew had better luck. Huge thanks to Kate for drivin and chasin, hope you made it to the funk zone!!

one observation about the la cumbre data station. it sits lower, west of and behind the actual la cumbre peak. i find that temperatures and velocities are accurate, but when there is any decent amount of e or se wind it always says s or sw probably due to rotor/wrap. i need to go observe in on some east day. all other directions seem accurate including ne.

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