Rat Race, Day 3

Yesterday was a weird day - we shoveled wind teks off in droves, for hours, only to watch them grovel and rarely get above launch. There wasn't anything in the weather forecast that let us believe the day would have such a late start.

The task was changed, the water ran out and we baked in the sun until finally a few gliders started climbing. At 3:30 we launch on a 21k task that started at Burnt, tagged cemetary, and goal at Donato's. The convergence was going off on the medford side of burnt, but we didn't know it because no wind teks got there.

The fastest time was 17 minutes, which is a little short of the 1.5 hour minimum task time, and because we didn't make nominal task distance either, the task was worth around 115 points. 74 people made goal.

But it was a 10 on the fun scale.

Today we watched video of Matt Dadam trading head butts with a Llama - the Llama wouldn't let him get his glider out of the field he landed in.

Results are here.