Originally Posted by
B2N2
Would you bother keeping a logbook if you did that?
There used to be large areas of Arizona in which class G extended well above the surface. I refreshed my memory of that by looking at a late 2005 Phoenix sectional. E.g. SW of Prescott class G used to top out at 9,500 MSL. All those class G areas that would have been suitable for cloud climbs in gliders have now gone away. There are still some class G areas that extend above 1,200 ft off the coast of Southern California.
Had I flown my glider on instruments in that airspace I would have logged it. However, most of my cross country glider flying was in contests and contest rules prohibited any instruments that enabled flight in IMC. It's quite different in UK where cloud flying in gliders is, or at least was, legal whether in a contest or not.