losing again

[Aaron]

caught the eagle bus to ej and the walk up seemed harder then usual. must have been the last two exercise days that wore on me. lately i have gotten away with launching early and floating on until i hit something lower down and eventually getting back up. well it has burned me a few times recently and once again today. if i usually dont get anything right at launch at ej bowl then i hang a right to la cumbre peak thinking higher triggers are better. the problem is that only half the time when i leave even with or below ej bowl do i come in on TOP of the one good trigger, the g-spot. if i dont come in on top of the g-spot then it turns into a real scramble to get to the next consistent source of lift to fish without losing too much altitude as they are far away. i need to be more patient at ej bowl and choose the more consistent RR if not getting it at launch. today i left at road level or just below and came in below the g-spot. not too bad if later in the day as the spine from the gspot down is more consistent as the day heats. but early on like today, i simply couldnt find any up air below the g-spot. rode the spine as far as it goes towards the southeast, floated to the back of cathedral and around the east side of it(that is a beautiful piece of rock to get close to), made a few passes in front and only lost altitude(i rarely fish very long at cathedral as it only seems to be consistent on real cold days, cloud days, and ridge soarable later in the day when the west kicks in). so i rode the back cathedral spine to the east over 7 falls and came in 100 above the bump in front of the tit. hung there until below the tit, so scooted out to the road cut to 50 above and bobbed there for a while until flushing again. rode over to the power pray above st. marys and hung there for a bit before the chrome handle went down and came in 50 or so above the monastary which got me to parma. i never gained more then 100 feet at any spot today, so it ended up being a 40 minute sledder with some colorful low glides. i landed only to look back and see tons of people up all over the place, and a few hg and pg well over 4000. you win some, you lose some ;)

so for those of you unfamiliar with la cumbre peak, it is an awesome peak to dive back at with little to no consequences(often shooting you to the moon), as you can get super low and always squeak around cathedral to one side or the other and land at robbins if needed. if leaving even with ej bowl(try to leave higher), i hug the terrain, and skip the rocky spines where the arrows are in the image unless they are booming. if you can come in at the g-spot or higher it is much more consistent. the g-spot is where the bushy flat spine meets the rocky la cumbre mountain. that spine is easy to recognize as it heads southeast way into the canyon between la cumbre and cathedral. i always aim for the g-spot when surfing the ridge from altenator to la cumbre too. hope your flights were grand today, it looked real nice up there, #$@%#!#^@!