Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Saddle Mountain Soaring - October 24

The weather forecast looked dismal for southwest BC but rather promising for Saddle Mountain in Central Washington. So we took a chance and drove the long drive (actually very close to our old climbing grounds at Frenchmen Coulee).

We were rewarded with an excellent ridge soaring session! Our success with Saddle is much better than with Fort Ebey. Out of 3 times we visited: one time too windy, one time good thermaling/ridge lift and this fun ridge soaring session.

Wind speed and direction were just right for a sweet session with lots of top landings, low passes and best of all... it was just the two of us there! Pete estimated that he doubled the number of his top-landings, and he has done quite a few of them. I must have at least quadrupled mine.