The forecast turned out to be spot on yesterday and the proposed goal would have been nice for the competition.  Fredi flew beyond Arcones using the ridge of finish off just after the Somosierra Gap.  Only Mike and Dave made it over the pass from our group, though the rest had a good evening flight […]

Really nice soaring XC conditions yesterday and the classic run made by Ian.  We had intended to land at the Segovia goal the competition had set, but as Ian’s PB was a little beyond that (126km he did here last year to Tordesillas) he pushed on to finish the classic Piedrahita -Acrones flight.  7 hours […]

Yesterday was a remarkable soaring day.  Today will be similar. A NW flow with convergence lines on the mountain.  Surface winds relatively light and more N on the surface around Avila but the average wind in the boundary layer continues to be more WNW.  An inversion around 2400m, but likely climbs to above 3300m in […]