Lakes / Beeftub / Broughton 18 April 2014
I arranged to meet Colin heading up from the South with the intention of flying in the lakes. It was tricky forecast though, starting of NE and going round through S to SW. None of them ideal.
I arranged to meet Colin heading up from the South with the intention of flying in the lakes. It was tricky forecast though, starting of NE and going round through S to SW. None of them ideal.
The rest of the family had decided to head up to Edinburgh today so I tagged on and was dropped of at the Moorfoots.
Cliffs car was there so I knew he was around somewhere...Graham Saunders appeared and we walked in to the take off together.
Yesterday on Broughton was was a bit stable but still usable, everybody that was there went home a little bit sharper.
An interesting day at broughton. The forecast last week was for an epic looking day today.
Lots of discussion about XC flights and where to go on the group. Bodesbeck looked ideal based on rasp but the logistics of it (moffat - selkirk road closed for repair till the start of april) put us off.
Not the nicest of days. Arrived early with Tommy due to road closure to an overcast sky, with sports of rain and moving clouds. We walked up green hill about halfway up to consider. Tommy did not like it but the wind felt reasonable to me so I took off. It was stronger than I had judged really and I got pinged up quite rapidly to the clouds. It was pretty bouncy at cloud level. I hung on soaring for a bit then thought I would go down and land.