Two more great days at Dalby. Each of these tasks involved some pretty impressive forest crossings which had the effect of splitting up the gaggles a bit.

Managing these large areas of unlandable terrain proved quite technical and many different methods of crossing are evident from tracklogs and stories shared over beers since.

Once we hit the flats on the other side of the forests we were still not ‘out of the woods’ so to speak. They have had a lot of rain down that we. Large amounts of surface water are still evident and this makes for some very slow areas.

Dave Seib wins both days and I limp around to goal on both tasks which means I maintain my second place in front of Conrad and Big Jon. One day left, let’s see how things pan out.

Canned due to rain.

So go-karts and bowling where the call of the day.

While we’re sitting here. Check out Oyvind’s blog at http://www.ellefsen.net/ he is giving a great blow by blow rundown of each task.

Ground hog day.

Again we wake to 15kt easterlys. Again we set off down the hwy. 160km to Dulacca is the call.

Just like the past few days, the first 100km is dominated by real racing conditions. We had to pull the handbreak with 55km to go. This put a lot of guys on the deck as it was necessary to circle in zeros while the sky clouded over.

Rangi won the day leading the guys from the first start into goal. Seibsy took the third and flew the quickest time and moves back into then over all lead.

I limp into goal in 6th place and hang onto second overall.

Results here http://www.hgfa.asn.au/%7Edhgc/

Today looks pretty much the same. No complaints, the flying here has been awesome for this time of year!

The day started off looking pretty average with two layers of cloud surrounding the entire area.

We waited a while and eventually a 78km task to Chinchilla was called and off we set. I was in a reasonable position for the third gate at 1:30 so headed off with Conrad.

The first half of the track was a real race with 3.5m climbs to 6.5 grand. Everything changed with 25km to go and we we’re into surival mode. At this point we were caught by the gaggle and we all groveled together into goal. Nick Purcell was first in from our gaggle.

Dave May took the third gate and set a very fast time into goal possibly winning the day. We’ll see how things pan out with the results in the morning but it looks lime I will now be leading in he overalls.

Presented with the same conditions as the practice day yesterday a 120km task to Condamine via Warra was called. What started out looking like a racing day soon turned a bit slow when Hgy cloud move in over the course.

I took the first gate with Tony G; Cam M, Big Jon and Trev amonst others most of the field starting in the second or third.

I flew pretty much the whole task alone as company would not be required under the cu filled sky.

I was first into goal with Big Jon and Boof close behind. Seibsie won the day after taking he third. Conrad and Enda also put in good times from this startgate.

A fun day and the weather looks good all week.

Update: Results will be up soon. 1st Dave Seib, 2nd Trent Brown, 3rd Conrad Loten

We’re using GAP2008 which awards lead out points. This really helped my cause.

Easter at Tumut this yea proved top be a whole lot of fun! I have sent my harness away to be fixed (with my camera containing aerial shots from the weekend). In the mean time here are a few pics from Steve Blenky and “The Thief” Luton…

Andrew and I drove to Temora to pick up a dolly

Gliders on launch on Honeysuckle

Running of Talbingo

The three amigos from SA

Tracklogs from the weekend here