Morning thermals

[LousyResident]

I know this has been discussed many times, and I searched the forums, but I can't find a solid answer for my question.

Based on what I read, thermals are generally heading downhill in the early morning. That would seem to indicate that you don't want to be up high before the thermals switch and start flowing downhill. However, so many videos of Randy, Corey Jacobson, etc. show them walking in and up way before daylight.

How do you all avoid getting busted by the downhill thermals in the morning? Especially if you want to be up top to send off some locator bugles first thing?

 

[TheJason]

If you are on a ridge top you likely won’t experience thermals. It’ll be the prevailing wind. Once you drop off into a drainage, then thermals will kick in.

 

[Werty]

Depending on your terrain, use another drainage or coulee to get where you need to go. Sometimes a finger ridge will have more of a prevailing wind, than a thermal. Also I've been in one drainage when the thermal was going up, then drop over to another drainage and the thermal is going down. Good luck

 

[genesis273]

It's not long in the morning before the thermals start to rise. So we try to get higher than the elk, then parallel closer to them by the time it is rising. By this time, we're above them with the thermals in our favor.
Sometimes plans are just that and doesn't always go perfectly, but that's our mindset anyway.