Crestline Soaring Society

I arrived at the Edwards launch at 1:00 pm. Found it blowing straight in at 10-15 mph. I launched at 1:30 into nice lift along the face of the ridge. I worked this for about 20 min and then the shear came thru. OMG, 1000 fpm up a few times. Big fat lift but the edges were sharp and bumpy. Got real bumpy at the top of the thermals. I got to 7K in 30 min and didn't get below that till time to land. Got to 9300' msl. Took pics of a formation of planes going to the San Diego airshow. One hang pilot flew east past the 215 freeway. I landed at the Oak Tree LZ after 1 hr and 40 min. Blowing down in the LZ at 8 mph. Easy landing.

A great day at soboba today. we arrived early and tried to move our storage container. thanks to eagle wings hangliding for stepping up with three trucks to try and move container. we ended up getting a semi tow unit to move it after we couldent get it to move more then a few feet. 9 of us pg pilots hiked up to launch and parawaited until about 4pm when two pilots ( mike and joe ) launched. they rocketed skyward and radio'd back to us that it was still a little strong. the rest of us waited unil 5pm and launched and we all flew to sunset with one pilot getting 3 & 1/2 hours and the rest of us all getting more then 2 hours. the lift was everywhere and very smooth. several times we flew out over the city of san jacinto and got low and came back to the mountain and had no problem climbing back over the top everytime. we all landed at around sundown due to we wanted to land. no one landed due to a lack of lift. johannas from the kagel area who often flys marshall had his best flight ever we were told as he landed with a ear to ear smile. im told pilots will be meeting a little later tomarro at soboba at around 3:30pm. we hope you all had as much fun as we did.