{"id":4942,"date":"2011-03-10T20:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:35:19","slug":"thursday-10th-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=4942","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 10th March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/100311.jpg\" title=\"Geoff over Bellmunt.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> a flying day. The forecast was pretty good, warm, sunny, and south. We set off relatively early to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.099812&#038;mylong=2.293573&#038;mytext=A view of the ridge at Bellmunt. Click on the maximise button to see a video of the ridge at Bellmunt.&#038;myvideo=belmunt.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Bellmunt<\/a>, so Wayne and Mick could have a first flight, to see the ridge before the middle of the day when it&#8217;s much\u00a0stronger. I launched first, and they followed, all of us landing for a retrieve by Judith, and a trip back up. Judith then flew first, followed by Wayne and me. It was a lot stronger this time, quite rough in places, easy to get above launch, Wayne getting 2000&#8242; or so ATO. Base wasn&#8217;t high enough to go over the pass to Olot though. We flew for a while, then chose to land at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Mick picked us up, and we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&#038;mylong=2.612554&#038;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>, for what we hoped would be a nice evening flight. The wind was quite strong when we arrived, but slowly dropped off, and eventually we all had a flight or two, followed by the usual beers.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a great day. Which is fortunate, since the weather is now starting to deteriorate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/100311\/index.html\"target=_blank> See my photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/100311a\/index.html\"target=_blank> See Wayne&#8217;s photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: a flying day. The forecast was pretty good, warm, sunny, and south. We set off relatively early to Bellmunt, so Wayne and Mick could have a first flight, to see the ridge before the middle of the day when it&#8217;s much\u00a0stronger. I launched first, and they followed, all of us landing for a [&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\/4942"}],"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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}