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Marshall - Saturday October 25, 2008Today didn't start out too promising... Launched shortly after noon and was only able to gain 1000' over Marshall launch and then altitude caps were decreasing. Landed after 37 minutes of that. Without much ambition, re-launched without the warm clothes at 3pm and started making better altitude gains. Enough to glide back to Crestline after seeing Gene make it back there. Glided back with Bob and found some sweet lift in front of Billboard. Got to 7000' or so and glided to Pine where we returned to altitude. But the best was in the bowl to the West of Pine: Picture. I got up to 7600' there. GPS was indicting up to 18 mph of North wind at that altitude, but below it was converging between South and North. Pushed further West and then returned to Crestline, then to over the 215 Freeway. An unexpected afternoon delight. Forums > Pilot Reports Flight > PG · XC · GPS Track Sites > Marshall High PressureSure, it looked good, but the thing is we had high pressure settle over us after the Santa Anas left, so there was a low inversion and not much lapse rate. This points to weaker thermals and a low ceiling early, which is exactly what Jerome reports. Good Flying, Another pictureAnother picture... |
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Nice Report
Thanks for the report Jerome. From Long Beach it seemed like it should have been a good day at Sylmar and/or Marshall/Crestline.
Great photo too! Sorry I wasn't up there with you.
Cheers, Jonathan