Lakeview - Tallest town in Oregon

First day of the Nats was cancelled due to wind. A 103km task was called but was revised after some opposition about a 40km section of the task over an Antelope refuge where we'd been told earlier in the day we absolutely should not land. There is some very remote country out here so the tasks are constrained a bit by needing to stay reasonalby close to the only roads available.
The launch here is on the west face of a long north/south ridge with some very flat flats out front and a huge lake to the south. Of to the NE (common task direction) is a mix of flats and ridges, typically it is flown in strong winds with (hopefully) strong climbs. Tomorrow is forecast for light winds and base up to 13,000ft.
May it come true...

Lakeview is actually quite stunning, think Broken Hill with mountains, sprawling flat valleys and big lakes, but it is definitely Redneckville central south Oregon. Outside the building where I am typing this there is an event going on called 'Mud bogging' - it involves driving really ridiculously big and over powered pick up trucks through a big trench fulll of mud, and mostly getting bogged in it, hence the name. The irony is that the contestants seem to get annoyed when they do get bogged, which from where we were standing was the only possible outcome, indeed it looked like the whole point of the event. Then you get towed out of the bog by a front-loader which I assume is unboggable and proceed to use the equivalent of a years water supply for the average Sydney household to clean your truck, load it on a big trailer towed by an even bigger vehicle than your mud bog machine and drive home getting 8 miles per gallon. A well spent Sunday.