Crestline Soaring Society

Odd little day with several unlucky pilots launching from Marshall before 2:00 and getting gypped. Benefiting from “The Luck of the Launch” I ran off the hill into a “cycle” shortly after 2:00 and immediately “soared” to 20 ft. over launch, my vario beeping at a deafening 200 fpm. It was now semi buoyant with little workable thermals and I spent an hour never dropping below 3800 or getting above 4200. Mike B showed me where it was happening in front of Marshall and over the wind sock at Cloud.
Later I followed RC Dave toward the freeway and passed into a broad slow moving thermal that took me to 5000. Made a play for Billboard but couldn’t eke it out.
Landed after 2 hours and by then it was buoyant enough I actually had to dive down a little through the lift, although it didn’t require a lot of effort. It sprinkled for a few seconds on launch and I saw about 30 seconds of rain during the flight.
Rebar Dan, Kyle and Kenny Westfall had nice flights from Crestline.

Mike Z