First Mountain Launch at Lookout Mountain Flight Park

This was my first mountain launch after returning to hang glider training. The flight plan was simply to launch, head straight to the landing zone, do a box pattern over the landing zone until I reached pattern altitude, and then land. I'm flying a Wills Wing Alpha 235. There was a slight tailwind all morning, and we launched right in the middle of a lull period. There was a really nice rotor turbulence pocket about midway down the mountain, and that threw me around a bit.