Still more aviation happened today. We woke to pretty nice conditions, blue skies, some cloud, a little wind. Your forecaster was a bit surprised as it did not look like the sounding. The wind on the ground was slightly favoring easterly takeoffs, wind aloft was south south west. There were wave indications, just not in the usual places.
I took off to the east and flew to the Carters, not expecting them to work, but we were seeing some vertical development that looked to have wave influence on the south facing spur of the northern most peak. Indeed I found some rotor, and then wave, and was able to climb to around 8000 feet. However, from the start of the climb, our lovely blue sky was filling in fast, and more worrisome was very low, very wet looking clouds at the south end of the valley. As things were filling in, I descended to below the overcast that was now covering the airport. Cloudbase there was around 5000 feet, but with plenty of lift - so if you wanted to stay up, you could.
There were about ten flights in total, with the high flight near 10,000 feet. The day did end in a bit of rain at 3:00 but good flying was had.
I am less optimistic for tomorrow and Monday, but later in the week could be very nice.
RR
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