Flew Nimbus 3DT again with John Ellis at Minden, NV. John was visiting the US from England to fly glider for one month. John is a very good pilot and CFI, and I learned new things from him about flaps in this 4 hour flight. It was a blue day with no clouds, but there were good blue thermals up to 15,000 feet. We released over Burn about 3,500 feet AGL, and went south again. We turned back north around Sweet Water, but on our way to Sweet Water we were hit by very widespread strong sink. We got pretty low near Sweet Water, as low as around 8,000 feet. But John did a dramatic recovery. He patiently picked up weak lifts over Gimmy Bowl, and finally caught a strong one which brought us back to 15,000 feet.

When we were back at Mt Siegel, we saw some wild horses on the ridge.

Wild horses on top of Mt Siegel
(click to view a large picture, and look around a bit off the center to lower left)
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