Utah Windriders Association

Figured I'd go for the third Sunday of mountain bike AM, planing PM, but it was not to be. After Jim's enticing report of yesterday's fun, I rigged at IB hoping to get some upwind-downwind. 4:15 windline was light with the glint of distant caps. Distant is what they remained for the rest of the sesh, and I was crying as I saw a solitary sail getting some planers up at sailboat beach. I perservered masterfully, eager to see how fat boards compare to course boards of yore at slogging upwind , sure I could get up in the golden zone. They don't. Short and fat barely got me upwind 1/2 mile five tacks later. When the lone ranger upwind disappeared and flocks of gulls started circling in Rainbow Bay, I knew it was over. Saw the halo over Timp as the sun set and could only imagine what everybody was looking at last week. It got really cold really quickly when the sun disappeared, but I drove back to Dire Straits and was pleased that at least I had gotten out on the water on a sunny day. Saw a Western Grebe.

Saw your saab parked at IB My wife and I made the drive to Sailboat and launched a kite, just as two pole boarders were coming in. Not enough Kite for me to stay upwind so I ran down wind to Rainbow and got picked up. Not a bad down winder but perhaps a hour to late. It was of course blowing 12-16 knots when I pumped up but once I got wet, it dropped to 6-10 my wife said..... What a huge difference in wind between the dam and IB

And an even huger difference between SBB and my house, which is a couple of Km Northeast of the Island.

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