Bright 321, Day One

Forecast: Saturday
Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms, mainly about the ranges. Heavy falls, squally winds and large hail possible with thunderstorms. A warm day with cloud increasing and chiefly light wind.

That was the forecast for day One of the comp, and I was very happy with it because the forecast is never right, and today was no different. Oh, wait, they did get one thing right on - it was a warm day.

With the gloomy forecast and the clouds moving through the sky at a good clip, there was a lot of pessimism floating around this morning, but I didn't fall for it, because one thing is for sure, you won't fly if you don't go up the hill, so thanks to the guy at the briefing that said "Hey, lets do the briefing on top of the hill".

Up on top it wasn't so bad. The task was 43 km and zig zagged all over the place. But there was a lot of wind, so most of the field got one fast downwind zig, and one slow torturous upwind zag and if you were lucky and tenacious, you might have made it to the second turn point at Little Pyramid.

Three people made goal, and I bet they have cramps in their legs from mashing the bar all day. As usual, it was great to get the first day out of the way.

If today was windy with a forecast of "chiefly light wind", I wonder what tomorrow will be like with "fresh west" in the forecast... I say we just go up the hill.

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