Boot shot over CorndonIt was windy when we woke up this morning, and it seemed to pick up as the morning went on. Certainly blown out for Corndon. We toyed with the idea of driving to the Malverns, but thought that it would be too windy there too. Instead we did some archery, gardening and some work.

By 6.30pm it seemed to be calming down and the forecast is rubbish for the next few days, so we thought it would be nice just to have an evening flight. We went to Corndon.

It was 7pm by the time we got there and had looked at the conditions and it seemed too late to let other people know, but we phoned Wayne, who lives close enough to get there in 15 minutes. I launched first and although it was windy, there was very little lift about. I scratched around the SE face and eventually managed to get over 150 feet ATO. Geoff reported that the wind was picking up on launch and I could feel it when I tried to push out into the valley. I was pinned for a while but then it dropped off again and Wayne and Geoff launched. Intermittently it was a little bouncy, but otherwise fine.

We all landed and Wayne and I had another go. I worked every little bit of lift I found and eventually got enough height to land back by the cars. By this time it was definitely beer o’clock, so we headed to Bishop’s Castle to the pub.

It turned out later that we made a big mistake… Malverns were flyable and lots of people did a good distance. Next time we’ll go on the off chance!

See photos of today.

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