A NON INST RATED PVT PLT OF AN SMA SEL ACFT REQUESTED AN ATC FLT ASSIST AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN THE CLOUDS ON A VFR XCOUNTRY.

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WE DEPARTED FOR THE RETURN FLT WHICH WAS SCHEDULED THROUGH ALBANY; OR. A STANDARD BRIEFING HAD BEEN OBTAINED AND THERE WAS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE SAME CONDITIONS; OR BETTER; WOULD NOT EXIST FOR THE RETURN FLT. THE FLT PLAN WAS ACTIVATED UPON DEP AND ASAP; FLT FOLLOWING WAS REQUESTED AND OBTAINED FROM SEATTLE CTR. OVER THE MOUNTAINS N OF MEDFORD; THE WX CONDITIONS INITIALLY APPEARED THE SAME; A SPARSE AND INTERMITTENT SCATTERED LAYER BELOW AND AN OVCST LAYER ABOVE. AS THE SCATTERED LAYER BELOW BEGAN TO INCREASE TO BROKEN; AND THEN OVCST; I OBTAINED WX FOR ROSEBURG WHICH INDICATED VFR CONDITIONS WITH BREAKS IN THE OVCST. WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME; THE CEILING LOWERED QUICKLY AND THE LAYER BELOW BEGAN TO RISE. BEFORE A 180 DEG TURN COULD BE NAVIGATED; I WAS IN THE CLOUDS. AN IMMEDIATE RPT OF THE CONDITION WAS THEN MADE TO ZSE. BASED UPON RPTS FROM OTHER PLTS IN THE AREA; IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE OVCST LAYER TOPS WERE AROUND 10000 FT MSL. THE TEMP AT 7000 FT MSL WAS AROUND 50 DEGS F; SO I REQUESTED; AND WAS GRANTED; PERMISSION TO REMAIN ON THE ROSEBURG VOR AND TO CLB ABOVE THE CLOUDS. THE CTLRS ASSISTED ME IN THE CLB OUT AND THEREAFTER; BASED UPON PIREPS WHICH THEY SOLICITED; A BREAK IN THE OVCST WAS FOUND BTWN EUGENE AND CORVALLIS. DURING THE FLT IN IFR CONDITIONS; THERE WERE NO INCIDENTS AND THE DIRECTIONS OF THE CTLRS WERE FOLLOWED. THE PAX; WHILE ALARMED AT FIRST; CAME THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE WITH NO PROBS.