First flight at Boulder, CO

After waiting for 5 days, we finally had a soarable day. The day started rather late, or I started late because clouds looked so rugged and didn't look like workable. But a few folks flew up, and didn't come back, so I took off around 12:30pm. As I guessed, the lift was very choppy due to a strong west wind. There was a convergence line going north and south along the ridge, and you had to stay on the line. There were many equally good looking clouds west of the line, but as I went west, the lift was weaker and more scarce.

Went north about 50 nautical miles, and turned back. I tried to go south too, but there was a blue band west of Boulder, and I couldn't jump the gap to connect to clouds in the south. The flight wasn't long, but not bad for the first flight.

Heading to Long's Peak

Flew 265km