Monday 17 March 2014

Jaca Week 2 - Day 1 (Official version)

Its with some relief that I can report that the spell of good weather enjoyed by the first week of the expedition looks set to continue with the dominant high pressure giving us warm sunny weather for the next few days at least.

Today's forecast was for blue thermals initially to 6,000' and rising to over 8,000' later on. Our hopes of a 1pm start were over optimistic as even the local DCFI found himself back on the ground fairly quickly after his first launch.

Merv was first to go in 776 with Gonzalo and after a close inspection of stages 1 and 2 made it to the main ridge to venture a little way to the east before returning for the second sortie.

Bob and Paul launched next in 775 and in improving conditions used the "fire break" route to the main ridge which proved the quicker route. The views today were spectacular and hopefully some photos will follow shortly.

The second sorties proved less successful as it was getting close to 5pm before the last glider was launched. It still gave Phil and Andy a taste of what gliding in the mountains is like. We are hoping for a better day tomorrow and to explore a little further afield.

Bob.



P.S. Merv is threatening to post his own account of today's events....









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