{"id":2523,"date":"2010-04-23T20:47:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:54:18","slug":"friday-23rd-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 23rd April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Geoff writes:<\/strong> SW, so we went off to Clatter<\/a> with a whole bunch of people, including Martin, Mark, Glyn and Mick. We launched almost as soon as we got there – Mick and Glyn launched first, and got high, so Martin and I rushed to get off. It was a perfect Clatter<\/a> day – i.e. launch, and climb out immediately, no wasted time on the ridge. It was a bit rough in places, but the clouds started to develop nicely, and we were able to fly from cloud to cloud, without losing much height. In the end, we got a bit over-confident and went on a long glide between clouds, expecting something to pop up on the way – as had happened previously during the flight. And it did pop up, but only after we had\u00a0 glided to the ground! Patience, patience, patience! We should have stuck with the cloud we were with until we saw something forming a bit closer.<\/p>\n

Still, 47km, so not too bad, especially after the difficult couple of weeks we’ve had here, compared with the rest of the country!<\/p>\n

Graeme and James – who arrived after us – also went XC, though I’m not sure how far they got. Judith, unfortunately, didn’t manage to get away.<\/p>\n

And the retrieve was another master class in hitching. We got a ride from Oswestry right back to the Long Mynd<\/a> launch (we thought it had gone west) from Ben, who lives in Norbury just down the road from us\u00a0(and who we didn’t know before today). Brilliant retrieve.<\/p>\n

Only thing was, we then had to drive back to Clatter<\/a> later to pick up Martin’s car ….. Still, no-one’s perfect!<\/p>\n

See Glyn’s video <\/a>of our flying today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes: SW, so we went off to Clatter with a whole bunch of people, including Martin, Mark, Glyn and Mick. We launched almost as soon as we got there – Mick and Glyn launched first, and got high, so Martin and I rushed to get off. It was a perfect Clatter day – i.e. […]<\/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\/2523"}],"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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}