Crestline Soaring Society

Interesting day. It was blowing over the back at Crestline in the morning.

1st flight:
Launched at noon and could see 15 km/h NE wind on my GPS when at 6k (maxed at 6120'). Lift was smooth and visibility towards the desert was clear (see picture), but not a good wind direction for going XC to the East. After an hour, the smog came in and it wasn't as nice.

Here are the events that lead up to the reserve deployment as I recall them. Dusty and others may be able to fill in some of the missing pieces.

I was at the SE corner of the lz at about 2k agl doing spirals and wingovers to try and loose altitude (no rowdy lift just what seemed the typical late day glass off). Not having much success I decided to fly towards the water pond by the quarry at the nw side of the LZ. As I crossed over the lz I was on speed bar and assessed that I may be a bit low to be doing so. I let the bar off as I crossed over the shade structure, At this point I was aprox 800 ft agl.