Crestline Soaring Society

A good lightly soarable day. Nothing remarkable about my four flights or the conditions, really. It was a very good day for February. SW 0-7 at Marshall at 11:00, about 50% cloud cover near the mountains, mostly isolated cumies. I got to 4400 MSL and was craning my neck to see just how close to the wispy bottom of the could I was when the lift went to nothing. I headed upwind and as I got to the edge, still above 4300, I passed through a thin sheet of fog into clear air. By the next flight at 14:45 the clouds were just sitting on Crestline.

Cycles were pretty light at Marshall, and mostly South. On my second launch I rolled my wing right a little before starting my run, since It'd been trying to roll left a lot. This was dumb - the procedure is to yaw the wing more into the crosswind, not roll it. Once I left the ground I skidded right a bit as the glider rolled more to the right. A firm correction got me level and going straight, but what the hell had I been thinking? I managed to avoid all of the thermals and had a very brief flight while others soared.

At 14:00 it was cooler and damper feeling. Still good and soarable and there were a few rec pilots scattered around.

My last flight was at 16:11, a Falcon 3 170. The air below was quite thick with haze and I hung on in weak lift over Cloud for a while. Finally it went up, and I got to 5400 at 16:30, right under a sliver of a materializing cloud.

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The new tractor was in the LZ, and Rob, Gene, and others were all over it at various times. Gene did a little test-grading of a lane into the parking lot before he flew.