I agree with John. The sky looks so promising I even took my Oudie and was ready for (some short) cross country flight. After finish my first flight in 30 minutes I immediately too another one (1 hour 40 minutes). I was able to get 5200 msl above Sky soaring but only 4400 about half way between Sky soaring and Belvidere. Didn’t have enough of courage go more north because sky covering of clouds was 8/8. Once you dropped below 3000 I was happy to thermal in 0.5 knots to stay up. Maybe my mistake when traveling from Cumulus to another one was that I picked one when the clouds were already dying… still a lot of stuff to learn