Zion from above, and an O/R Blast

Today I decided to try to get down to Zion National Park, which I hadn't seen from the air before. Cloudbase was about 13,000, just enough, given the high terrain and lack of landing options. To always have an airstrip within glide, I had to basically take every decent thermal. Working band was about 11-13,000. Here are a couple of shots of Zion. It really is spectacular country.

Zion National Park from above

Looking down Zion Canyon

 After checking out Zion, I ran a cloudstreet north and back south again. Some spectacular statistics - from memory I did 169 miles without turning with a glide of 120:1! Here's the street looking back to the North at the end of the day. Shortly after this it started producing some spectacular fireworks.

Coming home - Airfield just beyond town