Geoff and Roger up a gum tree.It was windy today, so we headed out to La Cellera to return Roger’s phone which Geoff accidentally took away with him yesterday. As it wasn’t flyable we went to Can Co, a restaurant owned by Sergi, paraglider pilot and president of the Puig d’Afrou club. I got my free lunch for winning the PG world championship sweepstake and we had some cava-type beer, double fermented, which was actually really nice and which went surprisingly well with fish.

Afterwards the three of us set off to Santa Brigida to clear up after the Chilean (the one who crashed into a tree yesterday, decided to leave his glider there and fly back today to Chile). It was stuck up a high tree and Roger and Geoff had to climb up  the dead limbs (some of which were breaking as they stepped on them) to get to the canopy. It was a crappy old thing. 10 years old and looked so worn that you wouldn’t use it for ground handling, never mind getting into the air with it. (According to the Niviuk guys, the poor state of the glider, and its porosity, were the main reason he spun it into the trees, rather than only bad piloting). It was in such an awkward place that we had to cut the lines to get the sail out and before chucking it into the nearest bin. The glider was damaged as we got it out, and we put a few more cuts into it in case anyone saw it in the bin and thought it was safe to fly!

Catalunya (the part where we live) is a really nice part of Spain, and has mostly avoided a lot of the trashing and over development other parts of Spain suffer from. It’s a real shame when pilots come from somewhere else and just dump unwanted stuff here, for others to clear up.

It was still howling at 4pm, so we decided just to can the day and went home to do jobs.

See photos of today.

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