Yet another Epic day
Plenty of PBs for altitude today with a cloud base of 3800m. I flew tandem with John, an old client, now 70 and no longer flying who was in the area on holiday with his wife. We managed cloud base, but I landed locally, needing to get back to prepare the registraton for the XC Open, leaving the others to try an out and return to Barco. Nigel and Brian made it back form Barco, and John Kingsly landed just beyond Barco at a fiesta where they plied him with beer and food. Kevin and Gavin made it a good way back from Barco, and Carolyn flew many hours around the valley. All in all a great finish to a superb week of conditions.
Tomorrow we start with the XC Open. Weather is looking reasonable except for Mondya.
August 31st, 2009 at 09:47
Thanks for a great week, Steve.
Best decision of the week was to NOT try for the return trip from La Carrera, but to descend and meet the locals. Free beer wins every time, I say!
Worst decision was the day before, to follow the “suck” into the side valley, which directly led to the oak-tree encounter.
Following thee two personal firsts (tree and free beer), I won’t be selling the kit just yet, but hope you can research local fiesta dates to dovetail with our next visit!
August 31st, 2009 at 18:07
Thanks Puri and Steve for such a great week.
To get over the Gredos MT’s was a special day.
You can see some of our flights here.
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/tracks/world/2009.08/brand:all,cat:0,class:all,xctype:all,club:0.14,pilot:0_0,takeoff:8913
August 31st, 2009 at 18:52
ps the last comment was from Bryan Hindle!