Crestline Saturday

[Tony Deleo]

Both rigid and flex wing records were broken. 4 pilots over 100 miles. The 3 longest flights northeast up the 15. I headed east along the 40. I will let Southside furnish the details. I was slow out of the gate taking off last. Everyone else went east and I went west. I was stuck at takeoff for 1+ hours! Near The Ords at 8k I turned to fly towards the convergence. Jumping back into the Lucerne Valley, I was 6k deep in the Ord Mountains,and went to near cloud base 16k. Continued to follow cloudseastward, unfortunately they ended from there it was all down hill into the inversion and southeast wind. Was confused where I was, what I thought was a road using for navigation were railroad tracks. Realizing this and descending I decided to fly back west to make retreival less difficult. At the 114 mile mark turned back landind near Cadiz at the 108 mile mark. The temperature was 112. Unknowingly Route 66 was just north of me so I would have had retreival-oh well you live and learn. Congrats to Owen, Bruce and Dan. As usual Eddie did a superior job of driving-thankyou Eddie

[Tony Deleo]

More on Saturday. While walking next to the train tracks toward chase in the 112 heat a train passed by, the conductor seeing me walking in the middle of nowhere threw out of the passing train a six pack of water, he must have thought I was some kind of nut wandering around-he was probably right. Another wonderful adventure!

[NMERider]

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[Dizzy]

Tony,
Thanks for the story! Its always interesting and useful to read how you analyze your in-flight decisions!

Alex