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Well, not much of a flight report,but pretty exciting conditions. Jon, Ernie, Joel (from Coloma) and Charley flew. Launch conditions were pretty good, a little cross from the right. We kept waiting for breaks in the clouds but they kept filling in as the clouds got close to hull, so we took our sled rides in the above order. Jon found some workable lift in a few places. And I found some just in front of launch that got me 300' over but that was it and I glided down.
The unusal and exciting part was the conditions down low and the landing conditions. Past the knob we encountered increadable sink and turbulence. I had 1400 fpm down, from the knob to the ground. I came over the knob with 3K' of altitude and was on the ground in two minutes. In the end, it was a struggle just to keep the wings level and the glider pointed where I wanted to go. Forget spot landing! There was no rounding out or skimming in ground effect. There was no cussioning effect at all, as I was being driven into the ground. I whacked into the soft ground a couple hundred feet long. I think I was the only one who whacked, although everyone experienced the turbulence and sink.
In retrospect, I believe the whole north end of the Pillsbury basin, including our regular LZ was in rotor from Sanhedron Mt.!
It's great to be alive!
Hangfly the Airhead aka Charley