Another day of decisions! Go to the Lakes (a 5 hour drive), go to the Peaks (a 3 hour drive) or stay here and go to Corndon (a 15 minute drive). The Lakes looked promising for triangles, but we thought the Peaks may be blown out, so we went for the easy option and stayed put.

It was cloudy early on, but it was forecast to break, so we got to Corndon early to sit it out and wait for conditions to improve. They did so slowly and it turned completely blue. People had several punts, including me nearly going down to the bottom and having to walk up again. Dave T, Geoff and I didn’t leave the hill until nearly 4pm, when Dave marked a great thermal that I managed to squeak into, but that Geoff got into lower than even I was. He took it over the hill and despite getting some leeside lift, he was too low to make the most of it and landed near Chirbury.

I got a second thermal over Tuffins and another near Sarn over a field that was being ploughed, but I didn’t get the height to cross the next ridge. I landed in Sarn village in the local football pitch. Dave was always higher than me and managed to maintain his height better and found a fourth thermal after I went down to land near Newtown (24km). Not epic flying, but nice to get away and have a change of scenery.

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