Last THURSDAY the forecast was for light easterlies.  Sam from VIC was still in town so I took the day off and we headed out to Lake George.  On launch, I called Geoff,  he said he could take the arvo off and meet us out there.  Sam and I set up under a great looking sky with nice streeting clouds. The wind was light but enough to stay up in ridge lift alone.

Not long after we launched the wind dropped off but it didn’t matter cause there were plenty of thermals to keep us airborne and I made way up north getting to base several times reaching 5000ft/asl (Not bad considering it’s almost the Winter Solstice.)

Making my way up north the plan was to go XC over the back once I was up near Collector. Unfortunately pilot error and gravity shot my plan down and I landed with Sam near north launch.

I gave Geoff a call who was almost ready to launch back at Gearys, only thing was the wind dead so it looked like Geoff had left work for a retrieve and a sledy. Not too impressed Geoff left his wing set up and came and got us.

Back on launch Geoff took off into a very light breeze but stayed up surprisingly easy. The air was buoyant and even this late in day there was still lots of climbs around so I quickly set up and joined Geoff. The air was super smooth and after climbing out up north we headed south of Gearys.

Sam was belting around on his mini bike so I thought if he could retrieve it would be a great chance to try and cross the Lake. Geoff ageed.  Then I hit a climb that was just what the doctor ordered – 300ft/min right to base.

Given the time was 4o’cock this was unreal.  Geoff beat me to the top and we punched head wind under a street over to the wind farm. We both agreed this was one of the memorable days at the lake and one we will never forget.
On FRIDAY Sam and I headed out to the lake again. The wind was moderate breaking up most thermals but we found some great lift lines and had a party with nearly 2 hours of out and returns over the Lake.
On SATURDAY it was the Lake for hat trick.  It was stronger wind and a lot of north in it but that didn’t stop Trent,Turtle,Sam,Christelle,Thief and I meeting at North launch. It was awesome fun with lots challenging thermals to climb in and we stayed up for over an hour. Trent follwed a climb over the back cruised into Dick Smith’s property landing on his runway!! Very cool!
So It’s been a unreal 3 days of flying in Canberra learning a lot having heaps of fun, proving once again that the epic cross countries might be gone for winter but amazing fun of flying is here all year.

So if you packed your wing away until summer you’re certainly missing out!