A couple weeks back I flew into Lake Placid with a friend to visit with a Canadian Soaring Club that visits each year in Oct. They come looking to soar in the wave that forms downwind of the mountains. When conditions are right, the wave will extend to over 20,000'. On such days it is quite bumpy down low but becomes smooth as glass once connected with the wave. Oxygen and many layers of clothes are needed in the thin and very cold air aloft.
No wind and wave this day, but good soaring in the thermals up to about 8,000.
http://soarcny.blogspot.com/2012/10/flight-to-lake-placid-ny.html
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