Working Bee at SavHill

A bunch of pilots arrived at Gundowring to clean up the take-off on SavHill and I flew down to the car after we finished. The day steadily developed (there were great cycles coming up the face while we were chainsawing, and whipper-snippering) until by the time we finished small showers were dropping from the clouds that blew overhead. Out over Albury/Wodonga it was much less developed, over the other side of the Kiewa puffy cu's were forming and growing so that they started dropping rain as they passed over us and the sky out towards Corryong and Mt Beauty was dark and stormy looking.

I launched between sprinkles and flew straight even though there was plenty of lift around the hill - I was focused on getting down to the car before the next shower came through. After I landed though, I regretted leaving the lift. If I'd used it to get up closer to the clouds and pushed out over the valley I would have been flying towards less development and it could have been quite a good fly, I think. Ah well, you live and learn.