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Flight Articles from the weekend of 6/24 - 25 (in order of posting time stamp)
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Andy Palmer
Saturday, 6/24/06
Pine Mt SS

Went up to Pine with Marty, Arizona Glen, Randall, and lovely Carmen as our driver for what we thought would be an epic day.  Blips up to 17 k, some wind forecasted, but as the day before the forecast didn't equal reality.  I think this is due to the upper level high pressure that the regional forecaster stated in his forecast discussion that it was hard to predict winds and possibility for TS due to the phenomenon.  WJF had been reporting SSE winds much lower than SBA which is what we found.

We arrived on launch about 11:10.  Light thermals, no wind, and hot!  Marty was off and scratched all the way out to the sand pile then up to 9k, so I was off scratched for 15 minutes then it started perking and we were all up to the inversion at 9k for a couple hour flight  We all landed in the grass field just uphill from the Sandpile.  Good day.

Looked like the north side of the ridge was starting to develop as we were landing then it started developing right over our head as we were leaving and base looked to be about 14k.

Wonder what happened out at Blackhawk.