{"id":388,"date":"2009-03-21T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-03-22T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T09:31:17","slug":"saturday-21st-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 21st March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/210309.JPG\" alt=\"Walking on Cabrera.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> After yesterday, which was a bit of a stressful flight, and the good flying we&#8217;d had earlier in the week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.100954&amp;mylong=1.844238&amp;mytext=Berga\" target=\"_blank\">Berga<\/a>, we decided last night to have a day off, and to go for\u00a0a long walk with Judith&#8217;s parents. On the drive up to their house this morning, it became more and more clear that this was going to be a great flying day (obviously that would happen once we&#8217;d written the day off for flying). By the time we left their house for the walk, the cumulus were regular, and nicely spaced; and winds reasonably light. The sky looked epic &#8211; a much over-used word, but accurate in this case. Our walk took us up the high ridge of Aiats from where we could see <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>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=41.962954&amp;mylong=2.594093&amp;mytext=Puig d'Afrou launch. Puig d'Afrou is a hill near La Cellera. 900m high (approximately). Click on the maximise button to see a video of me flying at Puig d'Afrou in 2007.&amp;myvideo=judith_puig.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Puig d&#8217;Afrou<\/a>, <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> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.072246&amp;mylong=2.686182&amp;mytext=Roca Corba Launch. Click on the maximise button to see a video of Geoff flying at Roca Corba in 2007.&amp;myvideo=Rocacorba_141006_low.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Roca Corba<\/a>. On top of the ridge we got a call from Roger saying he&#8217;d just flown over the area in his Ryanair plane to land at Girona, and seen lots of paragliders\u00a0flying between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=41.962954&amp;mylong=2.594093&amp;mytext=Puig d'Afrou launch. Puig d'Afrou is a hill near La Cellera. 900m high (approximately). Click on the maximise button to see a video of me flying at Puig d'Afrou in 2007.&amp;myvideo=judith_puig.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Puig d&#8217;Afrou<\/a> and <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>. Sure enough, a few minutes later, we saw about eight in total, in different gaggles, well on their way to Olot. Some turned round and headed back towards <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> &#8211; the rest continued, were very high, and could well have gone a very long way! No doubt we&#8217;ll find out tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Despite seeing them, we had an excellent walk. We climbed up Aiats, had a picnic and then traversed the ridge to climb up the steps to the mountain of Cabrera. Stunning scenery, and, as ever, very few other people around, except when we came to the cafe in the church on top of Cabrera. There seem to be churches on top of most mountains here, not all of them with cafes, but quite a lot of them (<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> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.258261&amp;mylong=2.707884&amp;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of El Mont.&amp;myvideo=el mont.swf\" target=\"_blank\">El Mont<\/a> also have churches and cafes). It was a wonderful walk, one of the nicest I&#8217;ve done here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/210309\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: After yesterday, which was a bit of a stressful flight, and the good flying we&#8217;d had earlier in the week at Berga, we decided last night to have a day off, and to go for\u00a0a long walk with Judith&#8217;s parents. On the drive up to their house this morning, it became more and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}