Geoff writes: I decided to go to the Peak District – partly because I thought the flying would be better there, and partly because it was the Derbyshire Soaring Club’s summer party on Saturday evening. It was a good call. The wind was SSE – no chance of a significant XC flight in that direction from the Peaks, because of airspace, but then it wasn’t really an XC day. It was, though, a lot of fun, doing the ridge from Rushup down to Lose Hill. It’s not quite as mindless  as just doing the Mynd ridge run, you have to work a little bit more, not least to get around Mam Tor. And there were plenty of thermals, in spite of the cloudy sky.

The evening party was excellent, and I caught up with a lot of people I hadn’t seen for some years. Makes a change for me to have to do the talking. I usually leave that up to Judith.

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