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Dean Stratton

Wednesday, 3/16/05
Skyport to Carpinteria

Chris G, Bob P and I got too low on our first flight and couldn't get back up, so we all had to watch Pipkin, Bo and Irene bounce down range without us.  Fortunately, Eddie was down at Parma so the 3 of us headed back up to Skyport for a re-light.  The second round got us in the hunt but by that time it was getting too late to jump the gap into Ojai.  Pipkin made it to Boccali's in Ojai, hogged all the glory and left the rest of us littered along the course... thanks for waiting squeak!  No really, Pipkin deserved all the glory considering he spent close to an hour fishing near the power lines for enough lift to make it to Divide Peak.  I think he said he made 3 or 4 unsuccessful attempts at Divide before actually making it.  That's more patience than I would've had, nice work TP.

The lift was scrappy, sharp and wind blown but at least we got to fly.

Just a few shots from the day.  I was too afraid to take my hands off the brakes to take many more:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fllspdahd/album?.dir=/7839&.src=ph