{"id":3041,"date":"2010-06-23T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T08:19:51","slug":"wednesday-23rd-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 23rd June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes:<\/strong> the Long Mynd<\/a> again – and an uncrowded day, since, apparently, a lot of people were watching England play in the rounders world cup, or something like that.<\/p>\n

Great sky, we launched, I had my lowest low save ever at the Long Mynd<\/a>, then climbed out. And it was very, very rough – not just low down, but high up too. And broken. And there was wave behind, which explains the roughness. Eventually, we came back to the front, and all top landed – Dave, Martin, Judith and me. We decided to wait a while to see if it smoothed out a bit. After an hour or so we all relaunched, and climbed out – no wave over the back either. Around 1500′ we sort of lost it – I think we were thermalling a bit wide in our gaggle. Nigel, Martin and Dave turned back to the front, and I thought Judith had too, so wimpishly I followed them, until I heard Judith ask why we were going back. So I turned round again to join Judith in a new climb she had found downwind. Martin, a minute or two later, tried to follow, but was way too low and ended up landing on the Mynd, well back from launch.<\/p>\n

Judith and I bimbled along for a while, then went for a glide to a massive cloud which should have had a mega thermal underneath it, but didn’t. I think it was starting to decay as we reached it. We struggled along for a bit more, and I got another thermal which took me up 1500′ or so, but I didn’t get back to base. Judith had landed, but I managed to continue a bit longer, landing on the Much Wenlock – Bridgnorth road, for about 27km (Judith did about 21km). As ever, there was more to be had in the day, and it’s a shame there weren’t more of us to search together. But an enjoyable flight, and an easy hitch back, so could have been a lot worse! It’s always worth going over the back. You never know where you will end up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes: the Long Mynd again – and an uncrowded day, since, apparently, a lot of people were watching England play in the rounders world cup, or something like that. Great sky, we launched, I had my lowest low save ever at the Long Mynd, then climbed out. And it was very, very rough – […]<\/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\/3041"}],"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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}