{"id":1968,"date":"2010-02-10T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2010-02-11T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:28:20","slug":"wednesday-10th-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 10th February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Joan at St Brigida.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/100210.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> a bit of work, then flying at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&amp;mylong=2.612554&amp;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>. Joan, Lluis and Ivan arrived at the same time as us, so we went up together. I flew first, followed by Joan, then we top landed. Base was really low, though it was sunny, and the cumuls improved, and base rose a little. Still,\u00a0it was a bit up and down &#8211; so much so that at one point four out of the five people flying got flushed, only Joan making it back on top. Fortunately, we&#8217;d left a key on our van, and Joan came for us.<\/p>\n<p>Lluis and Ivan re-launched, and promptly got flushed again. Then it got much better, easy to stay up, and the rest of us had a pleasant flight. We left before the day was over &#8211; had to go shopping for our house guest arriving tonight, Wayne and Richard, for, hopefully, five days of skiing and flying.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Joan told us that a couple of French pilots got 3000 metres at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.100954&amp;mylong=1.844238&amp;mytext=Berga\" target=\"_blank\">Berga<\/a> on Sunday and flew to Bourg-Madame,\u00a0 across the border, when we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.099812&amp;mylong=2.293573&amp;mytext=A view of the ridge at Belmunt. Click on the maximise button to see a video of the ridge at Belmunt.&amp;myvideo=belmunt.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Belmunt<\/a>, thinking it would be too windy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.100954&amp;mylong=1.844238&amp;mytext=Berga\" target=\"_blank\">Berga<\/a>. Seems incredibly high for the time of year, though it was an excellent day everywhere around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: a bit of work, then flying at Santa Brigida. Joan, Lluis and Ivan arrived at the same time as us, so we went up together. I flew first, followed by Joan, then we top landed. Base was really low, though it was sunny, and the cumuls improved, and base rose a little. Still,\u00a0it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/1968"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}