For our last day we had a relaxed start with the first launch at 13:00, climbing well towards Javierregay, Ingram was encouraged to release over the village and was soon climbing to 6000' and achieved the shortest tow of the week. Exploring west towards Berdun. nothing significant was found so were returned to the village (square one) now down to circuit height. The house thermal had 4 gliders in it and eventually we climbed away while the others tried moving north but most returned fairly quickly at ridge height again back to square one. There was a definate pattern developing of climb, search, nasty sink and back to square one that remained all day. Meanwhile, Colin and Clive bravely headed north and found some wave (encouraged by Gordon who had found a hotspot on the western side of the Hecho valley and was comfortably climbing through 10000') By this time Ingram decided land to let Richard have a go. Richard opted to miss out square one by having longer tow towards the wave source. After sometime wrestling in some very turbulent but promsing rotor, we fell out of the bottom into off the clock sink and found ourselves at the base of stage 2 grovelling in the weeds. At last we connected at the same spot where Gordon had had success and finished the flight in the Yesa 'washing machine' on spin cycle 10 up /10 down!
Considering we didn't fly on two out of the six days the group flew for a total of 34 hours providing some vivid and lasting memories for all.
Merv
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