Final Results

Finally put some miles behind me on Saturday, the last day of the meet. We had good conditions with a West wind that built in strength through out the day. I attempted a 52 mile triangle (Butte - Farmer - Mansfield and back) which I hoped would be enough to take the lead in the king post division.

The first half of the flight went quickly with 1500ft/min climbs up to 12,000 ft. It was relatively smooth for me but others found some rough spots with Tom Pierce inadvertently getting rolled past 90° in one of the big ones early on.
Halfway through the coarse the lift began to weaken and I had to slow down and work some lighter thermals before making the last turn point at Mansfield. By now the West wind had built in strength and I had a 17 mile up wind leg to finish the triangle. With the weakening lift and the strengthening wind it was soon obvious I wasn't going to make it back. Each thermals I stopped to work drifted me away from my goal and my climb rates were too slow to net me any forward progress. I finally decided to go on glide to see if I could make it past the halfway point for the final leg and at least get the mileage multiplier but my glide was poor and I ended up landing short.

The final standings for the 2006 Chelan XC Classic:

Name	Class	Glider	Points
Tom Pierce	Rigid	Atos	4380
Mike Daily	Rigid	Axxess	3085
Larry Jorgensen	Rigid	Axxess	2516
David Scott	Topless	Litespeed 4	4067
Kelly Harrison	Topless	Fusion 150	2452
Lenny Baron	Topless	Fusion 150	2418
Jimmy Culler	Kingposted	Laminar	968
Darren Darsey	Kingposted	U2 145	802
Mark Salesse	Kingposted	U2 160	799
Jim Fenison	SS	Northwing	1518
Tom Johns	SS	Falcon 2 170	1313
Konrad Kurp	SS	Falcon 225	844
Chris/Sarah Galli	PG-S		407
Conrad Kreick	PG-S		289
CJ Sturtevant	PG-S		25
Pam Nichols	PG-OP		172
James Bender	PG-OP		90