Lake bed landing options.

After reading the comments below I realized that it sounds a little foreboding. The majority of the landings are good and fun. It's usually not bad but we are landing in the middle of the mountains in wind after all. Expect turbulence the last few hundred feet.

A: The standard LZ. Usually fine but it's not uncommon to encounter big sink and rotor here. Lately more people have been landing on the west side of the road here (to the right of the A). You don't get a rotor off the road when the wind is cross and you have more directions you can land in.

B: The smoothest air is here in my experience, and it's huge. If you're worried about landing at the standard LZ because of turbulence this is a good option. I do most of my tandem landings here. You will have to wade through shin deep water in the creek to get back to your car.

C: Truck Stop LZ. A landing option for when the lake is up covering the Standard LZ. The air here can be extremely variable in direction and velocity for some reason, especially in the middle of the afternoon, and there are stumps around the edge. I don't think wheels would work here as the grass is a little tall and the ground a little uneven. The good news is the ground is made of Nerf, very soft. If you pound in you bounce back up :)

D: The Boat Ramp. We used to land here all the time. I can't remember why now though is does become dry before the Standard LZ. Big sink and rotor are pretty normal here in my experience.

E: Pounder's Field. Named for the quality of many of the landings there. This is the first LZ to appear as the lake begins to go down in the Spring/Summer. You need to hike your glider out through the trees to get to the road. Switchy winds and rotor. Many people get the rug pulled out from under them on final. The ground is soft, like the Truck Stop LZ, as long as you don't hit a stump or other crunchy bits.

T: Werner urges me to add a marker for a reliable house thermal here. When the ridge is not working one can frequently come here to get up and stay up. Sometimes you can find it just across the freeway over this end of the lakebed also.