Geoff writes: it didn’t rain (well, just a few spots). It was a nice day, a bit lighter winds than I expected. Went to Llangollen. It was flyable most of the afternoon, until it blew out, but no -one got away (there weren’t many people there, surprisingly enough). The only reasonable climb I got was immediately aftetr my first launch, and in retrospect I should have gone with that, but it was quite weak, and it seemed like there’d be plenty of other opportunities to get away. There weren’t. I landed, after big wave clouds started developing (they always make me a bit worried), then flew again a bit later, when they dissipated – to be replaced by some bigger cumulus. Overall, it was a reasonable soaring day for people, but  probably we could have made more of it in terms of XC. People did go in the Peaks, from Lords, but there were a lot more flying there too.

Long Mountain didn’t work at all, too light, I think. The Lawley, the last report I had, people couldn’t stay up, but that might have changed as the day went on. [It did, and Siro, at least, had a great flight]

On driving home, early evening, I saw three gliders at Lan Fawr, doing some evening soaring.

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