Crestline Soaring Society

I arrived at launch at 11:30. Alone today, so commited to top land. The back flag was blowing down, but was blowing in nice on launch. I waited for an hour before I launched at 12:30. Went up slowly to 5K. Stayed there for a long time. Worked between 4500' msl and 5500' msl. Tagged 6300'msl. Went back to the Rock piles and flew around 5K when a C-130 came by, real close. He made 6 trips between San Diego and Corona, I stayed clear of him. I waved at him. I should'a got pics, but wasn't thinking. Flew for 2 hours and came in to top land and there were three people on launch. What I didn't see was that he was flying a kite at 1K over. I ran right into the kite string on final. Fortunately my wing was not damaged and I made a great top landing on the PG side of the E launch. Needless to say, I had a few words for him since I had been flying in the area for 2 hours, and he admitted he saw me in the air. Everything worked out OK, so no big deal. I bet he won't be flying a kite there any more. LOL. Max altitude was 5900' msl. A few bumps but nothing over 600 fpm.

Tues:
Warm post-heat-wave day. Two inversion layers evident - the marine/smog layer squashed down low, as usual, and a second layer at just above 5000 MSL, evident from the Cajon Pass brush fire smoke spread horizontally toward the south. Clear air in between. Quite east at Marshall at 9:30 AM and too strong for the upper SE launch, so we went to Crestline, where it was less cross and actually ridge soarable. Later we could launch of the S and SW launches from Marshall.