Thursday, 8th July 2010
Posted by Geoff on 08 Jul 2010 at 11:27 pm | Tagged as: Flying
Geoff writes: the forecast – which maybe we misinterpreted – was for SW gradually going more westerly, and, basically, sunny. So we woke up to rain, but it did clear out, and we duly went up to the Long Mynd, where it was SW – WSW. I had a go, it was buoyant, but I landed to fix a knot in my lines. Kai launched, and got away. Judith and David launched into the cold air after Kai’s thermal, and had to slope land. Martin and I got in the air, and I got something near the gliding club, and Martin came over. It didn’t seem that good to me, so I pushed forward whilst Martin stayed with it – and eventually it took him to base. I wasn’t that bothered, being confident I would get away, but it quickly went more south, the wind picked up, it got a lot rougher, and high cloud came in. After struggling with numerous collapses, I landed, assuming it would go more west and get better. It didn’t. It got more south, a front rapidly appeared out of nowhere, and it started to rain. And that was it for the day. Martin did 55km, Kai 80km, and the other person to get away got to Stafford – Tony Bradley, a personal best in the UK. A really short window, and all credit to them for making the most of it.
To say I was incredibly annoyed with myself would be an understatement. I worked off the bad mood by going to archery and shooting pretty well (by my standards).
A Brtitish Paragliding Cup comp on here from Friday, and predictably a poor forecast, at least for the next couple of days.
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