The Calima seems to be moving away and the winds dropping. We managed an evening soar with a 9.5 km glide down the valley to make things a bit more interesting.
Not a good day but with the heat starting to drop and the dusty air perhaps reducing. Too strong to contemplate this morning, but late afternoon does seem OK.
A day for going to La Lastra again with strongish SW flow. If we look at rasp, then perhaps too strong, but the Spanish Meteo site is show less wind. Liely convergence in Avila Valley and after Avila moving more NE. Less base and less chance of clouds today except in the convergence areas. Once […]
Very big day yesterday with which Catherine managed to push her PB by 50km or so to 159km flying to the north of Zamora, a route hardly ever made. Also on Sunday Tommy made 70km , his 3rd pb of the week.
A hot day with temperatures to 34ºC +. Trigger temperature around 29ºC, but after that a temp trace with no inversions until 4000m, quite a contrast on last week. Winds to the south and not so strong perhaps within the boundary layer, but due to thermal strength we will get strong local thermic winds on […]
The conditions starting to improve now and a great day out with climbs eventually reaching 2800m. We followed the tandem comp task over the Pass, but decided to return at the 30km mark due to the light headwind. A great run back over the Pass again and to home. Ross and Stu top landed before […]
Once again an increment in the conditions, Hotter, higher and lighter winds. The SkewT shows more generally NNW winds in our valley so the conditions on the hill should be very nice, especially in the evening. The general flow still continues to be NE, so a probable flight towards Barco or Plasencia is most […]
Yesterday with lighter winds and slightly higher climbs we had a good day, though once again without big distances. However, both Juan and Tommy achieved their personal bests. We stopped before Tornavacas.
Slightly lighter winds and a little warmer giving a better thermic day. Once again quite inverted bellow take off level and a NE flow. Perhaps today we may venture down further than Barco!
A weak inverted day and then strong climbs and stronger winds as we reached Barco. Most of the group there yesterday, then a decent evening soar.