Advance paragliders in the West Country

With a great forecast but with strongish winds at 3000m, a 65km ish task was set up and down the valley as usual but with three tricky turnpoints at the Tolmin end to catch out the unwary. I had a good start and made it down to Tolmin pretty easily. I got high on the…

Day 7 task 6. More to come but I thought I’d share this GE image of my low save at Tolmin! It so nearly went horribly wrong! Off to the presentation party now – I’m hoping I’ve clung onto 3rd in the Sports class…!

In the red Renault bus again… I’ve definitely found my calling in life – climbing onto the roof-rack to load 14 gliders on top! We still had a forecast for strong winds at 3000m, so that restricted the options a bit, however a good long 73km task was set taking in the usual run down…

Day 6, task 5. There’s more to follow but this was my climb of the week having got the penultimate turnpoint to the left of the image. From here it was a 14km glide to goal via the last turnpoint.

YARR. (Yet Another Ridge Run). Well, that’s a bit unkind but it does feel like that. The winds at 3000m were forecast to be 40km/h so the task committee set a 58km task up and down the Kobarid / Tolmin valley. The sky initially had lots of high cloud cover but it cleared shortly after…

Just in case I can’t maintain this position!

A 54km race to goal was eventually set at about 1530 due to quite strong winds on take off, low cloudbase and biggish clouds nearby. The window opened at 1545 with the race start at 1630. This gave us plenty of time to get a good position for the start within the 3km start in/exit…