Friday May 4 RASP

[RamyYanetz]

The sat photo sure looking great. Looks like a day to go to Lassen and back.

[Peter Kelly]

Low clouds over Mendos.
I didn't get above 6,000 very much
nice lines of lift.
bessa dam - red bluff - chico - bessa dam
500k, 7 hours.
still had lots of 6 kts lift at 6:30 pm

[Ginny Farnsworth]

Nice flight PK. It was a valley day for me. Rex towed me to 1200 MSL to a cloud that was building fast (thanks Rex)- where I released and climbed to 4500 with Ed who was flying with a student in the 21. In the mean time a cloud street was forming that beckoned me to Sites, but it dead ended in a blue hole. Back to my thermal, up to 5,000 this time, then cruised under coluds to just NE of Willows, some sight seeing over the Sac river (very lush vegetation this year) and then west again to the line of convergence (very solid just east of Intersate 5) and cruised south to WSC.
The valley cloud streets were beautiful, seemingly endless, with places where the street would widen out and there sould be a round blue hole filled with wispy, forming cloudstuff, and LOTS of lift!!
All in all, a beautiful day.
At the end of the day I saw Rex and Todd flying in the new Duo Discus - maiden flight (I think). Although I was in a hurry to leave at that point, I didn't miss the big smiles on their faces upon landing. I take it the Duo flew well! She looks like a beautiful ship - all new and shiny and sleek. Can't wait to get a flight in her myself!