Moma "s" is cookin'

It seems the Point of the Mountain's south side is always full of surprises, especially when flown in the mid afternoon. I arrived around two thirty this afternoon to find a couple of pilots already in the air. I set up and launched around three. The wind was averaging 20-25mph when I took off. I immediately climbed to 400ft over without a turn, and began trending toward the high tension wires to the east of launch. The air was burbling with little pockets of buoyant lift, nothing substantial, just constant 100-200ft per min lift. I flew upwind slowly until I was over the the freshly paved asphalt in the new residential area to the south. I found great lift over the asphalt and began working it. The thermal turned into a substantial core, as I drifted with it over the back of Blue balls (a set of towers on one of the westerly facing peaks). The drift was pretty good so I worked the thermal for a few more turns and headed upwind to the same spot over the residential area, again finding a substantial core about the same place. This time the thermal landed me 1400ft over launch, the highest I've been on the South Side. I continued to play for over 45min, never getting below 1000ft above launch. I decided to land after an hour, and soon after, the wind picked up to around 30-35mph so I decided to wait for a calm cycle. After a while, John Fitzgerald drove up and proceeded to drive his new 4x4 vehicle over the large burm in the LZ. He high centered his miniature SUV on the edge of the hill and teetered there helplessly. I came to his aid with my Tacoma. Looking forward to the up coming flying season!!