We started the Nats with light conditions that kept getting better during the week, leading up to booming Golden air for the last two days.

13,000ft base, 3-4m/s climbs with surges of 8m/s. On Friday we flew to Invermere (104km)in less than 2h, finishing with a 108km out-and-return on Saturday.

5 tasks out of 7 days... not bad.

Brett
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No sign of any results anywhere...

Light and tricky conditions for the first day, most took the direct route and landed short. Taking a gamble with an indirect route, I eventually made goal. Tough day… My final glide began with a 10km/h tailwind and ended with a 50km/h headwind! Luckily the strong headwind showed up fairly close to goal and only at lower heights, so I still made it into the 400m goal cylinder… just.

Windy and light conditions on the second day kept us on launch until 5pm this day. But we still did manage to squeeze-in a task. Was especially difficult to fly the first 10km or so. Thought I’d be landing about 5km short and had only one field to land in before a stretch of forest. Had a little extra height to look around, saw a lone cloud in the middle of the valley, and wondered what it was doing there. As a last shot I tried to connect with it from 300m, looked at the cloud, looked at the ground, took a deep breath, said a prayer, and went for it. Was mainly just going through the motions for the sake of not giving up too early, because it was so late and I was so low. Unbelievably, I flew straight into a smooth 2m/s climb. In no time I was at the base of the cloud that I had been staring up to from 300m.