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Jonny
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Member#: 394 Location: North West Registered: 06-10-2003 Diary Entries: 350
Mood: waitin for the next blow!
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19th July 2006
Paragliding - Gliding: Laragne chabre Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: 30C Sea Temperature: Weather: Sun / lovely cumulus Max Speed: Distance Covered:
A bigger task today. Think a 90k task to the pic de burgh and back via
st.Genis. A hard`task considering the strengthening southerly wind.
Got straight to cloudbase no problem and again downwind at st. genis. Got
low on Azure as well as my dad so we were scratching around for 45 minutes
gaining bits of lift here and there but nothing was really penetrating the
inversion. Eventually caught something to cloudbase and followed the
convergence by mistake in the valley on a glide all the way through and
past Veynes.
My dad landed by Veynes which was a good effort.
Made it to the pic de burgh about half way up and stayed at that altitude
for 20 or so minutes trynna scratch around with patchy bits of lift. By
this time, I was pretty tired having been in the air for over 2 hours and
my harness was killing me so I landed on some big plateau at the foot of
the hill. A bit of a stupid thing to do really as the retrieve took bloody
ages but still a good flight and finished around 10th for the day.
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