Tony De Groot
Friday, 4/2/10

Avoiding the Snake Pit

Unlike most people I decided to take off and go down instead of up.  But, I didn't leave launch. I just went lower and lower, "o.k. I HAVE to get up in this thermal or I won't have the glide out.  Didn't get up.  Wait, a redtail is climbing up below me, a minute later he was looking down on me like,....what a kook.  O.k. I have to make sure I have enough altitude to get to the snake pit. It's basically get up or land in the snake pit now.  I'm going over to the other side of the knob, hit a nice little thermal and crawled on out of that hole.  That was relieving.  That is by far the lowest I have ever been below launch.  Then I got just over launch, went on glide and got hammered again arriving below the round house.  Every time I turned I fell into a hole.  Struggled and struggled and finally landed after 45 minutes.

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