{"id":139,"date":"2008-07-23T21:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T08:16:27","slug":"wednesday-23rd-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 23rd July 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/230708.JPG\" alt=\"Chris D. launches at Bache.\" \/>Geoff writes: Went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.264940&amp;mylong=-3.143168&amp;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of Bache Hill.&amp;myvideo=bache.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Bache<\/a>. Phil Bibby was there with his XC group; others were Phil and Carol Wallbank, James D, Graeme, Steve L. &#8211; a busy day for Bache. Very cloudy at first, but gradually opened up, but it was a slow start. Base was very low, about 3100&#8242; ATO. Judith went with a climb, tried to get back to the front and had to land and carry back to to relaunch. Meanwhile James had left, for a short flight to the ground. Just after Judith launched, Phil B, Phil W, John and I climbed out, and Judith managed to get into the thermal too. We all got to base. John went back to the front, Phil B, Judith and I went on a glide. I went to a cloud which as soon as I got there started decaying, headed for a tractor in a field, which didn&#8217;t work, and landed for 9km. Phil B followed me, and also went down, one or two km further on. Judith went for a perfect ground trigger of a tractor in a field, an into wind ridge behind &#8211; and it did work, but unfortunately after she had landed. Three successive buzzards  climbed out from her landing field as she packed up. 7km.<\/p>\n<p>Phil W very sensibly held back a bit, had more patience, and made around 30km. Steve L won the day though, leaving last and making a lot more &#8211; 50Km maybe.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect we left a bit too early and were too impatient. Also, flying into a decaying cloud is a classic mistake!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Carol for the excellent retrieve, and we ended up with a nice couple of pints in the beer garden in the Castle pub in Bishops Castle. Tomorrow is another day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/230708\/index.html\"> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: Went to Bache. Phil Bibby was there with his XC group; others were Phil and Carol Wallbank, James D, Graeme, Steve L. &#8211; a busy day for Bache. Very cloudy at first, but gradually opened up, but it was a slow start. Base was very low, about 3100&#8242; ATO. Judith went with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}