January's weather was not so good for flying so when the forecast started to look good for saturday I was starting to get a bit excited. This was not helped by a busy week at work and the occasional txt message from Tommy telling me how good it had been up at the moorfoots on both monday and wednesday!

Friday night came.. and the forecast had  indications of some high level winds, Dampening the enthusiasm slightly but a plan was starting to come together.

Stuart hoochy was heading over to Tommy's from colvend and would be passing through lockerbie so I grabbed a lift (after filling the car up with tandem and solo kit). Forecasts were mixed. Looked too west for the Moorfoots, strong upper winds made it sound like Bodesbeck was out and WNW to NW (with possibly a bit of sw too!) meant we had a bit of a tricky site choice for the day. Sundhope Heights covers this direction and although it's a bit of a walk up it gives a nice fly down if things are not so good.

Its been a good week really, when we get cold frosty dry weather like this and flyable N/W winds . I get a litte excited at the very thought of going to the Moorfoots.

   And so it was back there today again. Arrived to find the light wind at the carpark on around 280 to 300 degrees at best so I walked in to the west to access the better face`s.

Today my brain switched on again, well enough to make a decision to go and attempt flight.

   It was an easy choice, the forecast was good for "The Moorfoots". The great thing about this site is the walk up......there isn`t any, just park the car at the layby and hop over the fence and launch, its all just too much.

Tricky forecast with strong West on the East coast round to SW over us. Energy was not high post christmas so we decided to stay local. With no clear wind direction we went to Witchy for an assessment, but were not much better of. It looked aground West or possibly slightly North of so for convenience we Tommy, myself, Dudley, Jamie, Dave the Hutch and Gerald, decided on Sundhope. 

Chris and myself decided on another attempt at flying somewhere today and after giving it far too much thought we started heading for the Moorfoots, but on the way over too the Yarrow valley my melted brain came alive again to remember Sundhope....mmmhhhh.

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