2 flights 3 hrs at Cliffside 1/10/16

Cliffside was great as usual today. Two HGs (Neil / Myself) and a half dozen of PGs got as much air time as desired till dark. It started out windy this morning from 9-12am with speeds of 8-12mph then switching to being mellow for a couple of hours that forced us land. I went back up to hang launch around 2pm with conditions switching back on, so flew again with even better lifts. On my first flight, I launched at 11:45am and landed at 1:15pm by the river. It topped out 1,400ft AGL. Second flight I launched from the hangs lower launch at 2:30pm and flew for more than an hour as well. It was very lifty everywhere in the afternoon and was easy to climb 500 to 800ft above launch. We got inside the cloudbase around 3:30pm, which is about 2,200ft AGL. Mostly smooth thermals mixed with ridge lifts. Neil flew his WW rainbow Raven and top landed at the Paraglider launch once. We both landed by the river around 3:45pm. Both of us had a two great flights. I'll post video of Neil's old Raven later.

 Video Link

 https://youtu.be/p6nRfpmLhy0