Geoff writes: One of the best days I’ve had at Santa Brigida. Driving out, the sky looked excellent. We arrived around 1.00, to see a couple of people flying over from Puig d’Afrou. I launched, and flew for around 15 minutes, but it was getting quite bumpy – very strong lift, but bumpy – so I landed and decided to sit it out for a while. Not many people there, it was lunchtime.

After maybe an hour, it seemed to have calmed down – so much so that the one or two who were flying were struggling. This often happens here, there’s a dead bit in the middle of the day when there are still thermals, but it’s scratchy. Anyway, I launched, went straight up, more or less. At about 1900′ ATO, I had to decide whether to fly over the back towards Olot (I was still climbing strongly), or push forward to try to get onto the cliffs in the next valley. Pushing forward into a headwind on a 1/2, with a very un-aerodynamic harness is more of a challenge, and I’ve never managed to get into the next valley.  This time I did though, topping up a little on the way. In fact, I was too high to bother with the cliffs, just carried on, and messed around for a while in the valley. It was nice to switch from ground thermal sources to just using the clouds. I eventually flew back and top landed. Was going to fly again, but the wind picked up, so I didn’t bother.

Judith, unfortunately, was ill, and didn’t fly. There’s always tomorrow.

See photos of today.

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