another rock day

Well the forecast was calling for epic flight plans today - but I didn't go epic!

I launched before 12, crossed to Clearspot and climbed to 2,000m while drifting back over Mystic on the way to Goldmine. Didn't find anything much over there and spent ages looking for climbs while others flew past / overhead. The cores were very narrow and the lift was quite violent at times. I got my first half twist as one side of the wing was slapped under when I swung a bit wide in a turn, and another couple of asymetrics in small bullets. Eventually got back to 2,000m and headed in towards Growlers Hill (?). For once this wasn't working really well so I kept on going down to the end of Reliance ridge. There were bubbles popping off the end of the ridge but I was low and taking whacks so headed out towards the valley side of the Smoko bowl. Heaps of sink along the way and a moderate wind sucking me into the bowl (away from any landing options) made for lots of height lost. There was a red and blue Sigma way in the bowl scratching over a spur line and the wind would have taken me there pretty quick. There was no way some part of the bowl wasn't working with the amount of sun in the bowl and the wind blowing onto it - but if you didn't connect with it you would have been landing in trees for sure.
In my mind the risk wasn't worth the reward so I kept pushing out towards landing options, scraped over my "if all else fails I might be able to land there" option, and landed in the first good looking paddock.

Later on in the day, after packing up and hitching back to Mystic, I went up and had another fly to see if conditions were nicer. They weren't, really. It was still rough, surgy, with sharp edged bullet thermals blasting through unpredictably. I went over to Little Mystic and smashed around over there for a bit before coming down and landing.