Where to Ride 8/12

[Craig Goudie]

Good potential for planable wind at most locations. Get the AM sesh
at Grantsville for some 6.5 action, then move to Sulfur creek PM for more
6.5 under partly cloudy skies and the UWA campout. DC and Pineview should serve up a couple
of hours of 7.5 material. Slime boarders should get good North rides
at Rush after 1 PM, but you might need wheels out there these days, so a
better bet is the South end of UL early evening till dusk.

Tomorrow looks like 7.5 at Sulfur, and Kiteable conditions at UL again,

-Craig

[lesvierra]

Craig, I dont know how you do it. Like it was a no brainer. And I dont know what 7.5 material is, but Pineview served up some good wind today. I have been sitting on a comment for some time now. Do you think you could put on class for us sometime on how to read the info that you are looking at for your predictions. I assume alot of that is linked on the UWA website. There are probably alot of us newbies trying to get a clue. Some places are easier to read than others. And I sure would like to know how you knew to call pineview today.

For kiters, there are two new little sandy areas that are poking out on the south side and west of wind surfer beach. The furthest west is a good place to launch and allows you to stay in the channel longer upwind of the normal launch. However, today the winds were much stronger between cemetary point and the state campground. It was like a rodeo riding the weekend pineview chop though. Please, when you see it, call pineview again. I'll be there. thanks, Les

[MikE mAy]

i agree. i'd like a utah wind 101 class. i'll even buy beverages for a get together or something. what can you do craig?

[lesvierra]

craig, you're not my hero anymore. good wind at pineview again. you didnt call it. I got suckered into honey do's.

[Craig Goudie]

Well, if I got it right all the time, you guys would have to pay me a
lot more ;*) . Like I say, weather is chaotic. You did ask what
would make it more likely to blow at Pineview. Briefly, and from my
observational knowledge only, an approaching
cold front (or even a "short wave") coming in more from the North tends to cause wind in
front of the front, to blow
parallel to the front from West to East. That combined with a Southwest
flow in the upper atmosphere (check the jetstream), is usually a
good sign for Pineview, and makes much more gusty conditions
at DC. If the front comes in more from the West, then DC tends to blow
better, and Pineview kinda sucks. There are about a thousand things
that can inhibit this including, but not limited to; rain, high pressure over
Colorado, the center of the low pressure being in front of the cold
front rather than behind it, the front being occluded (warn air wedged
under the cold air).

But ..... the real expert on Pineview is Marty. So just go when he goes,
I think he uses that 8 Ball pretty well. I may have to get one instead
of using these chicken entrails.

Oh, and here's a sage piece of advice passed along to me by
Gunars Berzins (a man who gets in better than 80 days a season).
"If you don't go, you won't sail". Applicable to Kiters as well.


-Craig

craig, you're not my hero anymore. good wind at pineview again. you didnt call it. I got suckered into honey do's.

[Craig Goudie]

Mike, if you read the local sites page, it'll give some very brief
info about what makes wind blow when at which launch sites.
I'd be happy to do a Utah wind 101 in the off season, or maybe
I can do one at the next spring UWA get together. If I get
time. I'll try and collect my thoughts and post them here,
but for the briefest of descriptions; approaching cold front,
South wind 12 hours before front passage, after passage
12 hours of North wind. Pick your launch by it's favored wind direction.

There's also a little magic to it.

-Craig

i agree. i'd like a utah wind 101 class. i'll even buy beverages for a get together or something. what can you do craig?

[lesvierra]

Craig, I havent been this confused since grad school. If you want to do a wind forcasting 101 next spring, I'm in. Otherwise, I'll see if I can find an eight ball. thanks..