Volume 8 No 3 Jun 1957.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

tremely heavy whenever encountered, theworst being in the lee of the Two Thumbs,where I was forced down at a rate of somethingover 2,000 ft. a minute to a hei~t ofabout 13,000 ft. In the last set of circumstances,diving into wind produced noresults and I was forced to turn down windand pick up the next wave. I very nearlymissed this, as I almost flew through itbefore realising I was in it. This put mequite a long way back from the foothills andmeant that somewhere on the way to LeesValley I would have to get back into the firstwave, presumably from the foothills.For the first time for about three hours Imanaged to take off my oxygen mask andswallow some tea, which I felt very much inneed of owing to the cold and throughhaving no lunch. However, I quickly hadto put back the mask once the wave: hadstarted. I was able to build up height to alittle: over 22,000 ft. before starting outagain and had to resort to flying atmaximum pc:nnissible speed in order tomake headway. I got into the first waveagain about half-way between MountSomers and Mount Hutt without undue.loss of altitude:.The. Lees Yalley 41 the northern end ofthe route, photographed by Mr. Georgeson.-117-