Flying in the Clouds!

Today was a cold and windy, but really fun flying day at Crestline/Marshall. We had a low cloud base, 6400ft, and lots of lift. Once up in the clouds it was easy to stay there. We usually don't get to fly in the clouds here in SoCal, so its kind of a special treat when we get to.

I launched Marshall at about 3pm and just floated around for a bit until I snagged a nice cycle that got my up to 6200 ft and back to the Crestline cut-off. I eventually got to about 6600 which was plenty high without getting too much into the cloud. Temperature was pretty low, 48 degrees, but I was dressed pretty appropriately.

I think I finally got the Rotor harness (which BTW is the Rotor KickAss, not the Vulto.) dialed in. It was pretty comfortable today and I was able to thermal pretty well in it. I still want to do a little tinkering with it to get it just right, but I'm pretty close now. I think I will end up liking it.

1 hour 20 minutes was enough to get me nice and cold.

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