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Dog Mt (Glenoma,WA) had a spring-like thermal condition that delivered some very nice flights for 4 lucky hangs today. Forecast reported light winds at Dog, but it was already blowing strong 10 to 15+ mph W and SW winds at the LZ when I arrived at 11 am. Trees at launch were swaying wildly while we were setting up. Robin Briejer was first to launch around noon and flew for 3+ hours.l drove the truck down and hiked up so Luis Ramos, Tim Bugge and l launched around 2:45pm. My flight lasted over two hours. A lot of solid lifts and some good thermals shoot up at 600 to 800 fpm. Everyone was getting around a maximum altitude of 2,400ft AGL (1K above launch). I made it to Elk and got 2,700ft AGL there. North ridge, South Bowl, Elk.... all worked out very well. The air over at Elk was buoyant till the end of my flight which was around 5pm. By the way, if you haven't already noticed from the pics, we've now got a new smooth road to launch.
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