Chasing Diamonds

This was my second flight of the day at Denbigh after having been rained out of the sky about 45minutes earlier. I was in the air for about 5 hours so have trimmed out most of the wave S-turning and got the edit down to an hour and a half. You wouldn't have predicted the awesome wave views at the beginning of the flight.
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Book marks
00:01 preflight banter
00:49 hooking on
02:05 launch
02:51 oh more rain
03:05 arrive on the ridge
04:28 rain out west
04:42 JB checks the weather situation
05:10 230 reports on the southern end of the ridge
05:38 wind check
05:55 wondering about wave interference
06:10 a little bit of ridge hooning
07:48 behind 230
08:04 cloudbase
08:54 only if you are desperate
09:06 nearly IMC
13:19 through to clearer air and up up up
14:34 cloud skimming
14:55 time for sunnies
15:15 Understanding O2 equipment ???
16:18 Mountain high beeping (not detecting breathing)
17:01 Colwyn Bay visible in the distance
18:35 trying to figure out the wave
20:00 over St Asaph
20:50 not working
22:12 so close and yet so far
22:48 heading back for the ridge
23:31 back on the tusk
23:55 routing ideas
24:44 climbing in a closing hole
24:55 H5 about to join in the fun
25:47 Flarm alarm and back on the ridge again
26:35 rain rain go away
26:46 glider has just crashed on the ridge
27:17 pilot reports he is OK
27:40 glider on the hill
29:46 reminiscing about the dangers of flying behind the tusk
30:16 SF27a H5 goes past
30:41 turbulence
31:04 following 230 and into the wave proper
31:28 beautiful view of the Vale of Clwyd
32:06 easy on the torture
34:26 really getting going
35:04 back in the sun
36:09 alongside the whispies
38:18 3000' 3kts
39:02 shooting the gaps in the clouds
40:49 scraping over the tops
42:00 worth the drive up
42:19 above the clouds
43:00 Airspace warning 864-13
43:32 awesome view
44:12 6000' 5kts look ma no hands
45:21 wave shapes in the clouds
47:09 donning the oxygen
48:22 lets push west to the next bar
48:45 routing plans
50:25 arriving at the next bar
50:55 routing plans
51:45 into next patch of lift over 7.9/8ths overcast
52:25 8000' feet
52:38 10000 feet
52:54 14000 feet
53:40 heading north to Conway
54:34 talking to RAF Valley Radar
55:22 12kts of sink
56:12 alongside a spaceship
56:25 Conway valley
56:57 me and my shadow
57:55 cloud skimming
58:43 11000' 4km from the north coast of Wales
59:38 dipping my trace in the water
01:00:39 Colwyn Bay and Conway river Mouth
01:00:59 Menai Straits
01:01:35 epic lenticular
01:03:35 skimming the untrodden shores
01:06:02 trying to leave a wake trail
01:06:42 it's faint but it's there!
01:07:07 gunning the edge of the lenticular
01:08:35 signing off with RAF Valley Radar
01:09:09 230 a whisker away from his diamond height badge
01:10:50 climbing again
01:12:25 230 on track for his diamond
01:13:11 16500' awesome views of mid system wave bars
01:13:40 joined by 230 for some footage gathering
01:13:52 running out of daylight
01:15:00 alongside 230
01:17:18 oh look some clouds to play in
01:18:40 YEEEEEHA!
01:21:48 alien cloud scape
01:27:00 joining overhead airfield
01:28:27 1st bounce
01:28:31 2nd bounce
01:28:33 landing :-)
01:29:00 end of ground run.