Geoff writes: post cold frontal, light wind forecast, everything we saw said it was starting east and going through to north. So for once we didn’t agonise over which site to go, and went to Corndon. The sky was epic, we went up the east face, and saw it was off to the south; so we went to the SE face, and it was still off to the south. So we went to the SSW face (there is one at Corndon, kind of) – and it was off to the west. We had (whilst we were on the SE face) noticed a couple of people flying on the Mynd, but we were convinced that was just a temporary thermal, rather than the true wind direction, and that it eventually would come on somewhere at Corndon.

It didn’t; eventually we all gave up and drove off to the Mynd. Sure enough, it had been westerly all day, and still was, but very, very light. Paul Lawrence had earlier been at 2400′ ATO, but came back to the ridge. Anyway, we sat around for some hours, occasionally lobbing off. In the end, only Paul (again!) got up high, to over 3000′ ATO. Everybody else did little or nothing.

Congratulations to Paul, who outflew us all today!

Apparently it was the same in the Peak District too – easterly forecast, but actually west.