nuthouse saturday

[andy dainsberg]

nuthouse hike'n'fly saturday ~10:30 nordhoff hs. adventure on demand: ojai summer pg~

[andy dainsberg]

since i have absolutely nothing else to do and to support the idea that we should post our local flights so we all know what is working or not, i shall report some of today's events. anyone that wants to, can spin their own yarn. lower pressure dragged the marine layer into the ojai valley and altho it cleared by 10ish, the haze remained palpable into the afternoon. altho the surface was not warm and it was 66 at 6, there was delicious instability apparent right off the bat. we had 7 decent pilots and very good launch conditions as we queued up @ 1230. i had the sweetest launch thermal i've ever jumped into at the nuthouse; turning @ 4 times to get over the back ridge. that's an easy escape... chris p and i flew east and aaron & jarrod (correct me if i'm wrong) were following. cooperative thermals, no sharks in the waters, we connected with chief spine. chris and i top landed chiefs and watched aaron ascend to top it too~ nice~!... chris and i made it back to the high school with the usual teeth grinding necessary to push it @ corners into the pm W. max alt 5250. i hope everyone had a great flight, it was a fairly decent day to fly.

[JimmyZ]

Thanks for sharing Andy... Nice to hear some people are getting some good flights!

[John Fritsche]

Yeah, thanks for sharing. Seems like people don't post their flights on here nearly as much as they used to, and sometimes I wonder if anyone's flying. I'm guilty of this too, but all but one of my whopping 8 flights in 2011 have not been in SB.