The night before .........
Well the update on last night is not good. The boys had decided to visit Poco Poco at 17.00 and stayed there until they had drunk it dry of 43 after which they moved onto JJ's by the time we caught up with them around 22.00 things were turning into a bit of a mess. In fairness Adi and Andy managed to keep some sense of sensibility but Wyn, Shuan and Phil were a little worse for wear and seemed to struggle with the basic skill of eating chips.
So to today and as I type Phil has just come down the stairs remarkably bright and breezy but we shall see how long it lasts! Shuan is as neat and tidy as ever and Wyn, well all I can hear is some groaning from up stairs …................
Wyn contemplates his egg ....................
Amazingly one by one they appeared and whilst not quite as bouncy as normal they were much better than expected. A light NNE saw us head to Montellano in the hope that it would be below the low cloud that formed on top of every hill around. Montellano was no different and after a visit to check out the landing fields we were off to the top to join the FlySpain group already there. Slowly, very slowly the cloud lifted to above the hill and gliders launched for top to bottoms. Wyn and Adi took the opportunity to pop in some flights and I joined in for a float down as a little more heat came through the cloud.
Phils get's to grips with Phippsy's bushy eye brows
Adi popped in a couple of flights as the cloud got above the hill
Decision time, and both FlySpain's XC group and ourselves decided to move. We opted for Ronda la V as Lijar was still in cloud in the hope of getting some evening sunshine there. Passing Lijar gliders were flying but we carried onto Ronda as it looked sunnier that way. On arrival the cloud that had pestered us all day duly arrived and shut the hill down reducing the breeze to a very light one as we rigged. Patience is a virtue and finally the cloud began to thin letting some sunshine onto the hill. Bill and myself tested the air which saw me slope land at the base of the slope and Bill test the air out front which proved no better.
Phippsy gets up as the sun gives a helping hand
10 minutes later a bit more sun and we decided to line up for the glide to the road. Launching first I found a little lift and worked the ridge with the others taking off one by one some staying up and some gliding off to the road. Wyn and myself had the best of the lift giving Wyn some ridge soaring and seeing me at cloudbase although to be fair it was not easy. Everyone landed safely by the road and were soon on their way back to Algo' once more.
Nothing to do with today but it's a nice piccy :)
A quieter night out with a lot less drinking going on strangely enough.
Quote of the day “do I go over them or round them?”
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