Day 3 Cancelled - pilots fly to 17000ft

Today was cancelled on the grid at 1pm as the sniffer could not climb above 5000ft. There was also significant high cover. I thought the call was a little premature but decided not to fly as there was shopping to do at Walmart and we wanted to have a look at the Dry Falls. When we got back to the airfield, people were landing after having climbed to 17000 ft in wave. The sky was packed with wave bars. Arrrgh! We could have done the task in a single glide!

Here's a shot of the Dry Falls - according to geologists this was once the largest waterfall on earth, created when a huge ice-age lake burst its ice-wall dam and flooded the plains with billions of cubic metres of water in just a few days. Makes the Brisbane Floods seem like a dribble really... This is part of the 3-mile 1000ft escarpment that the flood flowed over.