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Marshall, Fri 6 June 08

Pretty bumpy up there today, what with 15-25 MPH winds and a decent lapse rate. I launched the UltraSport 166 from Marshall at 14:30, worked north of Cloud Peak slowly to 5400 in a start-and-stop thermal, then a bouyant glide to Crestline. Windy there, but once in a while a solid core would make it up past Billboard. Easy glide from 6200 over to Pine, which wasn't working that well given the mostly south flow over there. Got to 6200 again after not quite catching a few little cores that came through. Drifted west of Pine at trim with impressive groundspeed; turned back before Sugarpine and basically stopped. Back to Marshall and another lap in the circuit.