To all of you a Merry Christmas and a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. May all your thermals come true ;-) (and may all your ridges work!!!). And thank you for all the support in the past year.
Wedged between work, family (SO DEAR) and friends (SO PRECIOUS - and we (as in the family) had a few from far away this Christmas, for which we are thankful) and festivities (so necessary ;-) there was time to fit in a flight or two - yesterday was a trickyish ridge day (with some strong thermals - upto 3ms on the averager - which yours truly took under the pretext of practising for the shortly upcoming nationals; as well as wave - from early on, as Rudi Schukes DID NOT report ;-) and late - when i took a weak thermal over the airfield (waiting for a powerpilot exercising "simulated" forced landings) to connect weak wave from 2000ft agl to climb away - the valley is just so wonderful! and always full of surprises!
The flying was real fun, with KLLR notching up 810km at 134kph, a real achievement if you bear in mind that KS outlanded not far from where I did right at the beginning of the season. Those little (and they are real little) foothills don't work - if you are down to them only a thermal (in the valley) will save the day. KS was so low running the ridge that it prompted a distressed phone call by the paragliding boys to supremo Alan O'Regan.
So in a few days time i hope to be posting from a (drying-out) New Tempe (where it is very wet at the moment).
Merry Christmass and a Happy New Year
EY
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