Utah Windriders Association

Not quite the day we were all expecting. A good crew at Grantsville (8 of us?) sailing everything from a 4.8 to a 7.0. Wind was best from 7:30 to 11:00, when the wind started rotating to the west and got really gusty. Never really kicked in... I finally gave it up at about 1:30. Ken stayed, hoping for a few more rides. After all was said and done, the sail of choice that seemed to work the best was 6.0 - 7.0.

It appears as though for once conditions at DC rivaled those at Grants. The wind arrived abruptly at noon and rapidly reached a peak of 30, then very slowly backed off and became increasingly gusty. Enough in the gusts that I was fully powered up on a 5.0, a rarity at DC. The kites upwind at BWB looked like a flock of swallows, swooping and soaring in the gusts.