<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Good luck big dog....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:14px;color:#909090" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: CURTIS SUTER via MT-ALES <mt-ales@lists.webworks.net> </div><div>Date: 6/6/25 7:22 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: HFT <mt-ales@lists.webworks.net> </div><div>Cc: CURTIS SUTER <suterc@msn.com> </div><div>Subject: [MT-ALES] Triangles Day 1 </div><div><br></div></div>
Day 1 is in the books. Four rounds in great air. I was up first and removed 3lbs of ballast and sure glad I did. I finished only two laps and after crossing the finish line I turned downwind to land and at 36m hooked up with a thermal and was able to regroup
and finish four more laps! The air got good and then I wished I had the ballast in!
<div>That was good for a third place finish. 8 and 10 laps by the 2nd and 1st place finishers respectively.</div>
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<div>Round two was full ballast and did 12 laps for a second place behind 15 laps.</div>
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<div>Round three, well GPS signal was lost which means I had no idea where to go. Seems it thought I went halfway to Mount Shasta.</div>
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<div>Round four was rocking’ and did 11 laps for another third behind the top two finishers with 15 laps. This time I had no Bluetooth audio. I believe the field was saturated with frequencies and locked me out. Ugh. That was a challenging round handled
very well by my helper. I need a different Bluetooth audio transmitter. </div>
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<div>We’re staying in an airport hangar. The wheat field around the airport is being harvested, starting at 2am in the morning! Gonna be a long hot and very active air day today. I believe I am 5th overall to some others with unlucky decisions and equipment
issues. The Alpina CS3 is flying superbly with no bad habits.</div>
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<div>Curtis</div>
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