Day 4 Task 4. I woke up a little slow today after a bottle of wine with dinner yesterday - I am almost becoming accustomed to the 'detox diet' of fruit and juice!

Smiley dinner!

The meteo today looked good for a task to the south - in previous days the cloudbase has been too low to attempt heading too far south.
A 138km task with the first part in the mountains to the north then south to Mediocanoa and goal at the very beautiful flying site of Piedechiche near Cali started at 11:30.
The clouds were building south of the 2nd turnpoint so i parked myself there for quite a while watching  and waiting. Pilots were taking advantage of the available options to either fly the mountains ( under the very large clouds shadowing everything out ) or try to valley where sunspots were rewarding those willing to take the risk with good climbs to base.
A few of the leaders suffered with the mountain decision as they missed the 'suck' and slide down to land. Those catching the lift were needing to pull big spirals to stay out of cloud.

There were a mix of 'level' reports with it being obvious where pilots were flying from the varying level 1's and 2's.
As we approached Buga a cell to the east burst and sploshed down briefly... the task was stopped soon after at 15:26 with no-one in goal.

Results on the world cup website here

Most pilots seem to have enjoyed the flight, its just a shame that we didn't get the weather Gods to play nice today.
A front is forecast to pass through tonight or tomorrow so things may be on hold for a day .....