Running Deep Up The Mendos

With a fresh BFR in my pocket and low pressure overhead this mid-August day looks pretty good, so I jump on tow in "JH" and head for the Mountains.

I release on the Western side of Goat ridge and head North as I look East towards Lett's Lake.

It's the middle of summer and some patches of snow still hang on to Snow Mountain.
With St. John and Sheet Iron well in the blue I keep under a line of wonderful clouds and head North, deep down the middle of the Mendos.
It's a little overdeveloped, I'm deep and far from the safety of the valley, so I make sure to stay high as I over fly Black Butte.
With wonderful clouds marking the way, I dial in Round Valley Airport to my glide computer, which lies just beyond the ridge.
I spin it up over Anthony Peak, but it's looking even more O.D.'d to the North. I'm not low, but not high either and although I'm glad to have Round Valley in easy glide, landing in Covelo would make for a long and expensive day.
So I turn around and head South, this time on the Western side of the development line. I get hit by hail and continue on to a nice thermal just North of Hull Mountain.
I overfly Hull, look down on the peak and Timberline Launch, but am disappointed to find no hang gliders in the air.
So I stay high over potential entrapment land, leave the clouds behind and head into the blue to find where all the hang gliders are. Looking down on St. John with three of the many hang gliders flying St. John today.
Unfortunately the good lift is ten miles West of St. John so I grab a few pictures and continue South in the blue, by Indian Valley Reservoir.
Back to Williams Soaring where I touch down after four hours and well over a hundred thirty miles, marking my best day this season, deep up the Mendos.