Geoff writes: Forecast was ok, likely to be cloudy, clearing later. It was indeed cloudy when we woke up, but quickly cleared and it was sunny. The 11.30am forecast put a bit of a dampener on the day when they predicted possible rain. As we went out, the cloud was getting more extensive as we got closer to La Cellera.

I went to pick up an Artik 2 from Niviuk to test fly it. They’ve moved into nice, new, big headquarters here, and Xiliu gave us the tour. I later went to Santa Brigida, and flew the Artik a few times, top landing, but the clouds were big, black and low, and it seemed to me like there was lots of cloud suck, so I spent most of the time trying not to get high. It is a vast improvement on my Hook though, far better glide, and nice and responsive; and really easy to launch. I have it for at least a week, so should get some nice conditions to fly it.

Yesterday, there was another 25cm of snow at Masella, so tomorrow we’re off skiing, a nice sunny forecast. First farewell dinner tonight. Bit sad to say goodbye to Liz, Judith’s mum, who is off to Israel for three weeks, so we won’t see her until next autumn.

See photos of today.

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