Week 1 Day 1 2012 Jaca Expedition

Early arrival Ed Foxon  actually flew last Saturday so he was at the bottom of the list today for daring to get to the top before the offical expedition  started. The conditions were a northerly wind over the Pyrenees with wave over the valley. Merv Saunders and Richard Abbott launched first and swiftly connected with the lift and were over 18000ft in no time. John Simmonds and Jackie Chandler got off next and towed into the mountain second stage to flirt with the rotor hoping to push into the wave at the third stage only to give up and return to the valley and try their luck there. After about 2 hrs in rotor John needed a rest and landed back to take Ed Foxon to try his luck. Meanwhile Mike Birch and Clive Mansfield had made the wave in the Duo and climbed to 12000ft. Ed was full of new tactics and theories and tried them all but still didn't quite contact the wave, however alot of fun was had with vultures in the K21. John Landed back to take Stuart Becker up. Having arrived in the early hours of that morning Stuart had spent most of the day asleep but now was ready for anything. It all started well with a really strong climb to about 6700ft we then  pushed over to the west and tried to contact the wave where all before said it had been only to have to retreat and try again. Meanwhile John D'Arcy and Clive had got into wave in the Duo again! At the end of the day everyone had flown and enjoyed their first day. Tomorrow sounds like another wave day with a front passing through so watch this space!