Utah Windriders Association

79 on the beach, noon start was the best til 130, about 10-19 mph...not exactly steady. Guy Lindberg of Santa Barbara went hang gliding in the AM, sup before the wind, then added a 5.9 sail to his 10' sup board..as I endured the Annual Rigging of the Nightmares. Memo to self: Always rig one sail per week during the winter, mark it, bank on it. Hot day, billions of kites at BWB.

Water level is decent at IB, soon to be released. The rest of the day til nearly 6pm was a Steve Nyhus type of day. Maxed out at 10-29mph, no such thing as side to side, but hey not wetsuit, low crowds.

On a cultural note Smiths in Heber has a Starbucks now. Checked on Jordanelle and they are filling it, looks a lot better than a month ago.

Another DC day today with wind up around Noon in the 7/14 range and continuing through 6 or 7 PM, but
devolving to gust and holes later (air temps in the upper 80s).

Well, it didn't quite hit the upper 80s, but otherwise Craig's forecast was uncannily accurate both as to timing and to wind strength.


Conditions at Chucktown were pretty much as John described for IB.

Paul and Anjee arrived in Son-of-Whitey, an very nice van conversion. No vintage boards bolted to the roof yet.

Ripped around on 11M, till it died.
Then it came back up and
ripped around again till it died.
2 hour long sessions were just fine.

Grant and Duane were just headed out on 7.5 at 1:30 when I arrived at SBB. They got some good rides, then it faded as I launched - first time on a 7.5 in two years, oddly. Up and down bizarre brew of gutless gusts, wandering windlines, peripitatic puffs. Some days you ask yourself, "why do I even bother sailing Deer Creek?". Then, after getting a few white knuckle rides, a semi-planing jibe or two, and sharing some brews with the bros as you contemplate the beauty of Timpanogos, you have your answer.

BTW, I think SBB is a quite narrow place, narrower than G'ville, unless you get upwind further (we couldn't), and it's missing the wavelets you can use further down by IB to pump up onto a plane. But not many people there, or boats, so nice to rig, but rocky to launch.

I will note that at one point a boatful of people I was on my only overpowered planing intersection with graciously swerved well away from me.

Wondered if it was any better further down, but it sounds like only those who can comb the upper atmosphere like Marty had good sailing. Glad to hear the elusive Dubbock was sighted on the water!

Just for feedback to Craig, who forecasts this place far better than anyone else ever will, our three musketeers think the wind was too westerly where we were, i.e., coming off of the opposite side slopes, and that's why it was so lame and unsailable out there, instead of the hoped-for prediction. Or maybe it got too hot. Or maybe the Heber Creeper kept passing by and foiling our wind. Or maybe a mountain goat on the top of Timp burped (chaos theory approach). Or perhaps we didn't bring enough beer. Or -- contribute enough beer to Craig's account! (thanks, Craig, just kidding, you know we all live for your thoughtful words of wind wisdom!)

It was a stellar day for kiting. Went way upwind towards Rainbow Bay with Mark and Billy. I counted 22 kites on the water at one time.

Stellar day, but I am hurting today. Been a while since I kited 4 hours in one day....