A familiar story of fires, this time in Northern California. We have seen smoke in the distance but have not been impacted yet. A big pyrocumulus built and broke the inversion way to the south yesterday, eventually forming into an anvil head.
A remarkable picture of a part of the battle, more images here
Woodrat – Task 3
Rabies, Woodrat, RabPk, Burnt, Rabpk, Purcell
Comments
Difficult start, inverted, stable, tight thermals going nowhere
Escaped up to Woodrat TP and climbed a little waiting for the start
Some gliders went across to Burnt to wait for the start, I saw them but was nearly as high over Woodrat TP. Then got flushed from the TP, the start gate open and I elected to make my way over to Burnt to recover and begin the task – late!
Burnt went well, Rabpk worked reliably, Woodrat allowed us to get back onto Burnt to reclimb. Left at 1600m with enough to get onto Rabies.
3 gliders were climbing out over the 1km ring of Rabpk and had nearly topped out. I tried to connect with this climb but over committed and was flushed low into the Rabies bowl.
Reclimbed, took the TP then topped out to 2000m for a glide straight to goal.
Going straight to Burnt for the SG was the better move
Flight
Hayden Glatte won the day, starting from Burnt
Scores
Lessons
If a strong trigger (burnt) is evidently working when elsewhere is not as reliable then go to it.
Committing to the flushed climb at RabPk was a good gamble with a recovery strategy (just)
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