{"id":2027,"date":"2010-02-20T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:03:27","slug":"saturday-20th-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 20th February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes:<\/strong> warm, sunny, nice cumulus – driving to the site I was already writing the blog entry in my head, about the epic day it had been, flyable everywhere, great XCs. Except…. once I could see the mountains just past Olot, they were covered in the duvet cloud – where it spills over and rolls down a bit, very distinctive. This is absolutely guaranteed to mean that Santa Brigida<\/a> will not be on, not even launchable. Being a bit stupid, I managed to convince myself the duvet was dissipating, so carried on. And, of course, at Santa Brigida<\/a> it was strong and NW, and not flyable. I thought about trying Berga, but couldn’t get hold of anyone there to check the conditions, and it is a long drive from Santa Brigida<\/a>. So I hung around for a couple of hours, as more people gradually turned up. I asked each one what they thought about Belmunt<\/a>, if it would work, but no-one had any idea. In previous years we’ve rarely been to Belmunt<\/a>, because it meant a long and tedious drive over the mountains. But now that they have very kindly driven a tunnel through the mountains, it’s much closer. So eventually, I decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n

As I got to the other side of the mountains, I could see four or five PGs flying. I went straight up – stopping only to pick up two women paraglider pilots who had just landed. It had, apparently, been good all day. I drove up pretty fast, got set up and launched, and had a reasonable flight – never much above launch, but good soaring for a while. It is an exceptionally good site (though not top landable), and I’m certain had I been there earlier, it would have been easy to go XC.<\/p>\n

I got a ride back up from Johnny (who had also been at Santa Brigida<\/a>, with John, who had his first flight at Belmunt<\/a>), and picked up the van. In the end, a good day out, and in future we will always go there if we see the duvet cloud.<\/p>\n

\"\"Judith writes:<\/strong> My niece Maya was sick all night, so she, my brother-in-law and sick father stayed at home while the women went on a jaunt to Cork. Another Irish town I have never been to…<\/p>\n

We shopped, ate and then Joanna took us to a church where you can do campanology (church bell ringing). We blundered our way through Oh, Susanna, The Blue Bells of Scotland and Doe A Deer, before we cracked it and ended with a bit of an ABBA medley. I believe house prices in the area are very cheap!<\/p>\n

Despite it having been a sunny day when we set out, we were caught in an impressive snow storm on the way home. Snowflakes the size of my fist (well Maya’s really).<\/p>\n

See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes: warm, sunny, nice cumulus – driving to the site I was already writing the blog entry in my head, about the epic day it had been, flyable everywhere, great XCs. Except…. once I could see the mountains just past Olot, they were covered in the duvet cloud – where it spills over and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"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=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}