June 19th - Day 2 of the air race

Correction for tracking the race - trackerleaders.com/arc13   We are are racer #25.

Busy day.  To the Logan airport at 5:30 AM for a dawn departure.  If you look at an aeronautical chart you'll see that there's a dramatic climb in a narrow canyon to start the day.  Whew.  I wouldn't try it except in the cool of the morning.  Arrived at Rawlins, WY - great hospitality though it wasn't necessary to bring in their well-known high winds across the runway.  Spearfish, SD next across the Black Hills.  It was a challenge making the flyby.  Dropped down from 9,000' suddenly across the last ridge to "read" the airport, find the sod runway for the flyby then back across the main runway to land while also giving way to the airplanes arriving for the flyby.  More crosswinds. It was a challenging day.

There are a large number of racers who still haven't started the race due to the low weather at the start.  There's never been a start where some of the racers couldn't get to the alternative start and  started at different times.  Don't know how they'll all finish - we're right on track.  We're off to Brookings, SD early in the morning.  We didn't go on this afternoon due to thunderstorms en route.      Gene Nora