Scottish "Mixed"

I finally got to huck off of Mt Si which is just above North Bend. Just up the road from my house. Its a 1300m cliff basically and a hike up. Launched off in between snow squalls and wind blasts. I ended up getting picked up off of the launch from the gusty winds with a cravatte (when one wingtip gets caught in the lines) that was turning me back into the cliffs with an almost 1300m drop below. The wind was pushing me into the cravatted side of my glider and I was going up into the clouds. Cloudbase was on or near launch level most of the time. I managed to fly away from the mtn and regain composure and work on my glider. Finally, after pulling in my stabilo line and choking up with my teeth on the line numerous times, I pulled the cravatte out after pulling in about 2meters of line and then just managed the canopy into the headwind over to town. The scary part is that we dont fly with a backup to save weight on the hike up and lighter wings. I was flying Meredyth's extra small.
I havent been this gripped since I landed/crashed my glider into the trees in the gust front that broke my feet several years ago. It didnt stop me from hiking up Tiger Mtn later the same day and flying down a sledder.
My friend Bob, who had is own issues last weekend on the same launch and a few on this one, we deemed this type of flying "Scottish Mixed" conditions like in the climbing world when the conditions are poor and cant get any worse until you decide to try something. So I came out with a checklist for the dont's of mountain flying.

Scottish Paragliding Club
Mountain Launch, Mixed Conditions

the 3 things you should avoid:

1: Launching from a steep narrow rocky site with winds blowing every direction and snow/sleet squalls blowing through routinely after you spent half the day hiking to it.

2: Inflating the glider on said launch in a strong cycle thus ripping the wing into the air because you have only one more chance without having to re-sort/untangle your lines 3 more times above the launch, thus launching the wing into the air with a cravatte and lots of wind and no where to try to fix it.

3: Getting yanked into the air because you dont have control of the glider yet since you are trying to fix the cravatte while getting blown into the cliffs and an almost +1300m drop below you. All the while getting blown downwind with slightly visciuos post frontal wind conditions and no back up.

SM