Umpalumpas and goals in the Goal - Mexico Day Four

This going to sound pretty much the same each day I am afraid. breakfast on the balcony .... fill the water bottles pick up the lunch roll, thanks Kaz, then into the truck and off up the hill. past the Police check point now with not just Assault rifles but automatic shotguns as well ;) at least it makes you feel "safe".

Tandems get going as we arrive

It's starting to feel like a comp'

Big debate on launch as to the "task" today with varying opinions, we arrive at a compromise which seems pretty fair to me.  Bouncy climb out at 1100' per minute on the average, glider feels good and still nice and pitch stable, thats a bonus.  We form up at 12,000' and glide off into the bad lands where Rob g came to grief last year.  Glider is gliding nicely and bar pressure is nicer, Steve and gordon point out "the field" and I can see that it was very much the best of a bad job with very limited options, this is not a place to get low.

run run run then run a bit more

Up and on the Mesa launch on left shoulder el Penon by right foot

gliding over the bad lands, those files may look good but .......

We glide onto turn point and climb out steadily making sure we have plenty of height to get back across. Steve b and myself head a little further to the south towards a cloud and the others find a nice climb off to the north!  Still we all make it back to launch and climb again before heading north.  The guys get a jump on me and i have to take a climb over yesterdays goal field, don't want to land there at this time of day!  The guys push on to the next turn point out into the flat lands and stable air and start to struggle.  I slow up and get a stonker taking me close to 13,000' allowing me to glide in over them to turn point and then back to goal with out a turn, nice.

as low as you want to be the only safe bomb out is over the hill, it would be a long retriev

Goal was actually four football fields one with a game going on complete with Mexican band including a guy with a giant horn.  Still space down the outside, coming in straight and level plenty of speed, keep the speed, keep the speed, get ready to flair, FLAIRE, done........ well at least not as big a dork as yesterday!  In come the others with varying degrees of success, Steve b get fined by the lady that owned the potato field after destroying half a bags worth.

Retrieve arrives with Kaz and Wayne on board and it beers all round. Glider is flying great will try again tomorrow before final adjustments.

Quote of the day "Hooray I got up on Gordo's knob"