Thursday, July 12, 2007

Colliding forces

Julie and I arrived at our home in Park City Sunday morning. The trip went fine and our flight back to Salt Lake was routine. Yesterday Greg and I decided to fly the point. Being rather late in the day when we left and given the conditions, we both had reservations about our soaring prospects. As we began setting up, brothers John and Guy Lindbergh along with Dude, showed up and began unloading gliders. As we were closely monitoring a growing cell over the Oquirs, Greg noticed a quickly advancing gust front moving into the valley from the Lone Peak area. We hastily broke down our gliders and loaded up. As we watched, another micro burst from the south was heading up the valley toward the lone pine gust front. As were leaving the point we watched as the two, mainly dry, gust fronts collided. Kinda cool - wish i'd had my camera!

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