Crestline Soaring Society

Flew three Falcon Tandems (solo) from the 750. First two were necessarily brief, but the 15:10 flight was the last, so there was more time.

Got above the 750 quickly, then cored a slow drifter up the east side of Cloud Peak over many minutes and many many circles. Got over Marshall and caught one to about 5000 MSL NE of the peak, a little over Waterman Canyon. Didn't think my further prospects in that direction were good, so headed to west of spine north of the peak, then Cloud. Dirfted back a bit, to 5088 again, then dove 1/4 mile S to get under Kim Floyd, who had a boomer with his PG. I said I'd wait until 5400 at least until considering Crestline; soon I was aover 5700, so dove for the back ridge. No lift along the way, and as I neared the ridge I worried it might still be blowing N there. There was zero zilch nada wind, but some thermals, so I got above the ridge, then headed out to land, as the others in my group had already landed.

Peter got up with a Sport 2 HG on that flight also.

There was a large group of PG pilots from Seattle and they all seemed to have great flights from Marshall in the very bouyant late-day air.

Flight gory details on my website.

Good Flying,
Ken Howells