Mike Kelsey ()
writes:

Jason Gray of Greenwood , Arkansas, flying a WW Sport came in
first place. Jason proved his endurance by gathering many duration points at a
number of sites. This guy loves all of the sites and his home in Greenwood
provides him easy access to all the sites. He had the best Alt and Duration at
Petit Jean. Coming up short of having any distance points, he made up for that
with an aggressive campaign to get his four hours or more work days at a total
of 7 sites, with his four hour effort on the Buffalo LZ on the last day of the
series securing his leader position over last years winner and this years second
place finisher, Roy Mahoney. As far as his work day efforts, I think he would
have done that even without points. He is a working machine.


Roy Mahoney, of Howe , Oklahoma placed 2nd and competed on his WW U2 early
season. His move to the Atos slowed him a bit while he found his comfort zone on
the wing. He garnered points with a duration and altitude, and also excelled
with a number of XC efforts including 2 out and returns and one pre-defined goal
which was an upwind flight from Panorama Vista Launch to the Heavener LZ.


Mike Kelsey of Mena , Arkansas placed 3rd flying a WW Talon. Mike garnered early
season "First Flight" points. Later Mike and Roy did some great battle, grabbing
points from one another on a number of occasions. He also collected Altitude and
duration points with a late season surge with his Open distance points at
Heavener as well as some work day points.


Allen Rahi of Oklahoma placed 4th on a WW Falcon got a good mix of points with
First Flight, Duration, Altitude, and Work Day Points. He has moved up to a WW
U2, so we can probably expect to see some XC efforts next year.


Mark Stump of Greenland , Arkansas came in 5th place, flying an Atos. Mark
stunned everyone with his 178 mile Arkansas Record flight into Missouri. Mark
also had First Flight, Duration, Altitude, Pre-defined goal, and some Work Day
Points.


To see all the points rankings for the 2006 Ouachita Mountains Hang Gliding
Series, go to:
http://www.ouachitahanggliding.com/Series/2006Tasks/2006tasks.html