Sat 2/4 Nuthouse to Goleta

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Flight Articles from Saturday
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Friday Night Posting
Any takers for the Nuthouse Saturday morning? I'll need to start early to allot enough time to get my 30 pounds of ballast up the steep trail in the cooler morning air on a bad ankle and sub optimal cardio condition.

Expect SW down lower in the afternoon, but we should have ENE up higher. Forecasting some wind out the drain paths, but Ojai usually blocks a Santa Anna below ridge line. The lapse rate looks good up through 6K (30 plus degree F spread from the Ojai Valley floor to 6K) and its common to luck into some convergence over White Ledge and Divide. Maybe use La Cumbre Peak as a turn point then head back to Carp. I'd like to roll from Carpinteria about 8:30 for an 11 AM launch, or if any of the Ojai boys got a permit I'm not too humble to jump on a ride to Nordhoff Peak.

Andy Dainsberg expects a good Team Topa turnout. If anyone is making the trip from SB, give me a call so we can carpool. 9:05 at Nordhoff High School.

I expect SB to work OK also, but it might be problematic plugging upwind across Casitas Pass against the NE flow above ridge line.

[Chris G]

I would be SO game but already committed to being in SB. Can we go again Sunday?? Maybe I'll see you all at the Powerlines!

[Chris G]

Changed my plans. I'm IN! Sounds like Bob H is too. We might meet at NHS at 10, to be on launch by 11 and airborne at 11:45 (the magic time).

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Alignment of the stars looks favorable with a better than expected lapse rate up through 8K and about the right amount of tailwind in the forecast, but we do have some variable high clouds to contend with. There are several groups meeting at NHS between 9 and 10:30, but it's a hike up launch, so you can miss the bus. We don't encourage parking at the trail head. Drop off and park a few hundred yards up the road at the Cozy Dell Trail Head.

[Pegg_Brendan]

I can't fly today but I'll bring my suburban to shuttle pilots from the HS to the trailhead at 10.

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Summary for the weekend including Flight Reports and Saturday's weather archive

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