Crestline Soaring Society

Myself and a hang pilot arrived at the E at 12:30. The back flag was blowing down pretty good, but it was still blowing in on launch. I hurried and got ready and launched at 12:40. Birds everywhere. Got right up at the corner house thermal. I went to 5500' msl in just a few minutes. It blew down around 1:00, and the hang got stuck on launch. The convergence came through and I got over 7K. I went over to the north shearline and followed it over to the 15 freeway. I could have kept going but I didn't have a ride set up, so I turned around and came back. I was at 7300' msl. Getting back wasn't easy because I was fighting the headwind. I got back to the NW corner of the lake at 3500' msl. I could see it was blowing down pretty good in the LZ so I set up well upwind and used a "Horse Shoe" as a decent technique. The wind on the ground was around 20 mph. The last 50' I was going straight down. No need for a flare. Grabbed both C's and yanked 'em down for a great landing. 1 hr and 50 min flight. Flying the clouds was great. Going from one cummie popping to the next. Yee haw! At one point the Jump plane came and flew around me pretty close. I 'waved' my wingtip by pulling one big ear on and off repeatedly. They waved back. Pretty cool. Overall a great spring day of flying in Elsinore.