January
3/1/2025 Three Men
First flight of the new year.
With the afternoon looking the best part of the day, l arrived about 12.45pm to find barely a breath of wind at the parking. Still ... it seemed like the walk up may prove worthwhle given the forecast wind gradient. It could also just be a fly down. At the half way point, two cars arrived below with Tom, Andy and Jacob .... so at least some good company. The wind also started to show ... only about 5mph, but a nice westerly direction.
Once at take off things seemed hopeful - only 10 mph, but it could work well if as bouyant as the previous day's reports. By the time I was laid out the others had arrived. As they set up l gave it a go to see how it felt. A short 10 minute flight showed it very smooth, just enough lift despite the light wind and wth a nice bouyancy to the air. I top landed to video the others launching and set my tracker running.
Over the next hour we enjoyed some excellent flying in lovely, smooth, lifty air. As the afternoon progressed we were able to explore well out front and along the full length of the ridge. Jacob, as ever, was usually out front and putting his Enzo through its paces. The wind never read much above 10mph and the bottom landing was in almost nil wind, but the denser winter air made for easy landings.
An excellent afternoon and despite the low temperatures it felt quite pleasant.
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