8/1/25 G-ville - Tricked by the balloon!

[DimitriMilovich]

Headed out Sat AM seeing 9 g 11 at G-ville. Nothing moving anywhere, even the West Desert was mostly North, but the SLC 6 AM upper air sounding from 5,000 to 9,000 feet was South double digits, up to 22-23 kts. (G-ville is at 5,000 feet.) Stoked!

8:30 saw the shiny new trusty UWA windmeter drop to 3, then 0, and a very glassy lake, surrounded by lots of content fisher folk. Two of the people we talked to had each caught a rainbow. One had his line broken by the one that got away(!).

Sat and drank tea and munched a sandwich as it picked up a bit from the north. (It picked up a LOT from the North later, as we know.)

I'm thinking perhaps parts of the NWS have now been taken over by the Shallow State and windriders are meant to be fooled...