Overcast the whole day. We tried Lastra in the morning, but too crossed to the West. A late afternoon bit of soaring and down flight at Peña Negra when the wind came on, though ruined by a bit of drizzle.
An nice morning flight from Lasta with easy climbs though not to so high. Of those who flew, Crispin and Pete landed on the N110. I managed to climb out and flew to the N of the Piedrahita valley then flew upwind to land at home ( a shame since downwind to Salamanca was on). […]
Light winds in the Corneja valley and a great looking sky, but strong winds during the morning at Lastra due to some foen effect. Light winds at Chia, the other southerly, but too crossed for an easy launch. We finally flew at Lastra at around 6.30 with a huge lift band and mellow thermals shared […]
A poor forecast so early to Lastra and a successfull climb out for all. Loads of Vultures, Black and Griffon, helping us find the climbs. The sky was getting a little overdeveloped after less than an hours flying, so we landed mostly over the back, but with Phil and Alan in front. Cb developement for […]
Quite a busy flying weekend with the local club´s flying festival. Today a very nice sky filled with Cu at around 2900m. I flew a tandem late in the day enjoying nice climbs on both ridge and the Valley. A number of our group (Phil and Alan et al) have been stuck at airports with […]
Cloud on the hill till around 2pm, then good thermic climbs, but due to the depth of cloud we tried to avoid most stronger climbs. Later generally overcast with spread out Cu, but getting good around 6pm with good climbs in the increasing sunlight.
To attract attention to next years World PG Championships, the Vuelta Ciclista de España started a leg in Piedrahita this morning. Quite a circus with a huge security presence, helicopter, TV, Umbrella girls, displays etc. After starting outside the Palace, and with a lap up to Pesquera and back we saw them pedal off towards […]
A very nice first flight with light winds and large areas of lift. The sky however form early was showing cirrus and wave. I had fun skimming around our house and the bottome of the big spine at around 100m for 15 mins before finally getting up. Paul had problems getting down, which he wanted […]
Temperature over 30ºC and light winds, though it looked as though it was going to blow up when we arrived at launch. As it happened, light N with strong climbs to around 2600m+ Our group was strung out between Santiago and Santa Maria, with only Paul and I plodding on to San Lorenzo then comming […]
After a top to bottom in the morning we climbed easily on the XC flight, though a large congestus cloud behind launch started to drop rain. Due to this we moved out into the blue of the valley, finding nice climbs and making our way to the NW. I was flying tandem with Alan, who […]