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Tow 3 over the Labor camp. Pinion ridge is to the left (with dirt road on top)

Ahead is Blue ridge and the ski lift trails off the left wing and a big bowl of hazy air stopped at the top of the mountains. Along that hazy line is a continuious line of lift,

Almost straight to the left of the tow plane wing you can see the hazy air being ventilated out of the Los Angeles basin. The wings are aligned with a North-South line. Left is north.

The Mojave desert, including our place in the Antelope Valley heats so much that an afternoon low atmospheric pressure pulls the Los Angeles air out and sends it on to the north-west.

The difference in the two air masses form a shear line of lift.

Unique and almost always there.

Photo by Yvonne Robinson

Glider is DG505

Comments by Fred Robinson, US diamond badge # 80, Rated FAA Master Pilot.