Crestline Soaring Society

The day dawned clear before low clouds formed after 7 AM. At 10 AM Marshall was in the clouds, wind ESE 3-6, cloudbase 3800. Launched a Sport 2 175 at 10:20 into a 'hole' and dove. Nicely soarable already, but not strong. Chilly and dampish. Light SE in the LZ.

At Noon the clouds were higher and burning off. Lots of good lift to 4500 or so. Switchy in the LZ and I had to hunt for sink to core to get the T2 154 down.

At 13:30 there was lots of 600 FPM up and few clouds left. Got to 5k off Marshall pretty quickly with another Sport 2 175. The interesting part was landing 20 minutes later. Three of us in a row had to land in solid flow from ENE.

At 15:00 I launched a last Sport 2 175 and caught a thermal off the windsock that took me to 5450 north of Marshall, so I drifted downwind to fly over Crestline launch and back. It was generally bouyant 200-300 FPM most everywhere out front. Finally got to land heading SW.