Crowds flying on the Mynd on Saturday 20th June.The forecast was good. Very good, in fact. Geoff, Michaela and I went off to the Mynd. It was breezy from the word go and stayed that way the whole day.

Geoff rigged and flew his hangie, but was having trouble getting very high. In the afternoon it became clear that wave was setting up and Geoff reported rough conditions in the air. Some paragliders launched and there was a steady stream of people launching and gale hanging. Jay got high without ever doing a 360 degree turn, but he didn’t go cross country.

As the day progressed more and more people came out and the hill was full of people. At 6pm it was still gusty, but there were lots of people in the air who seemed to be penetrating ok, so I launched at 6.30pm. The light was lovely and staying up was no problem, so you would cruise around and enjoy the scenery. Geoff flew his PG too.

In the evening we headed back to the festival for more fun. The DJ in the music tent was a bit tame, so eight of us went into the dance tent where the DJ was playing really thumping hard beats. So hard it was nearly impossible to dance to, so we all just went a bit crazy, running around, jumping up and down, throwing shapes and generally acting our shoe sizes rather than our proper ages.

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