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Rampart cloud surfing session:
Max Altitude: 6,300 ft
4 HGs (Glenn, Paul, Stas and myself)
Thanks to Travis who drove for us today. I arrived Rampart around 9:30 am and it was quite windy (NNW 15+ mph) at the LZ. Launch was socked-in with some blue skies over the LZ in the morning. We headed up in Paul's truck at 1:15 and cloud ceiling was lifted around 1,300 ft above launch with good cycles. I was the wind dummy; first to punch off at 3 pm and quickly ascended to 1,000 ft above launch with plenty of lifts heading towards the cliff wall. Everyone launched shortly afterwards and also elevated quickly. All around smooth cloud surfing today like flying at Cape Lookout, Oceanside.... The Cliff walls were hidden in the clouds for some time, so we just cruised back and forth from launch to the front of wall on numerous occasions as we waited for the clouds to burn off. Partial cliff wall clearance after 1.5 hrs later. Temperature was below 40°F so my hands started to freeze after 1.5 hr later. Max altitude was 6,300 ft above the first wall on the edge of the cloud base. I decided to land after 2 hours of effortless flying since everyone else had landed at this point. We all landed great at the carrier deck LZ in north direction which was surprisingly smooth like landing at the beach. Another memorable flying day at Rampart!
Round 2 Rampart clouds surfing session.
HGs who attended:
Russ Gelfan, Kurt Hartzog, Aaron Rinn, Alfredo Moreno, Gary Braun, Dave Best, Tim Cayward and myself.
Rampart
today (Saturday) pretty much was a repeat of yesterday with much more
friendly clouds kept forming in front of the Cliff walls and launch. The
ceiling was about 1,000 to 1500 ft above launch between 2 to 4:30pm
than it got lower later. The effortless soaring conditions continue
provided hours of clouds surfing air times to 8 of us to play. I think
everyone flew for 2 hrs. I was the last one to launch at 4pm and last
one to landed at 6pm. Russ Gelfan posted some photos on his Facebook
(link below). Few hangs are planning to fly Rampart tomorrow (Sunday)
if weather looks good.
Few second of live FB video. (bad quality) :
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156041966329285&id=719859284
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