Geoff writes: wet and windy in the  morning, but the sun came out in the afternoon and we went off to do some archery. Too windy to paraglide, it dropped off a little and became hang glidable. I did go up in the evening, but it was very cold in the strong wind, and I just couldn’t be bothered. Three hang gliders did fly though, and seemed to have a nice time.

Tomorrow the North South Cup starts. It’s based at the Mynd, but for Friday the forecast is better further south and east, so they are doing the 127 mile drive to Milk Hill, in the hope of getting a decent XC day. The option here is Clatter – a good XC site, but the poor weather, the cloud, will arrive here much sooner than at Milk Hill, so they’ve probably made the right decision. RASP is giving it very thermic there, but then our experience of RASP forecasting of thermal strength for this area at least, this year, has been very bad, with it usually wildly over estimating the thermal activity.

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