The Spring has sprung in Àger :)

Almond blossoms everywhere ...

Springtime sky

The weekend was full of flying and fun. Even though the sun was shining the temperature in the air was freezing! After an hour I was so cold that I had to land. We had planned to top-land having left merlin guarding the truck and the apres-vol red wine ;-) but the thermals were making the top launch too strong for me to get back down so being forced to opt for the greater of the 2 evils I eventually managed to park myself fairly near to Camp300 on the plateau.

Look at that sky!!

I always say to pilots flying here "... avoid landing on the plateau unless its absolutely necessary because if its thermic or windy its in rotor and you will need to be prepared for anything to happen during the approach" I generally promise to inflict severe physical damage to anyone who even considers landing there if there is any easterly in the wind .. and now the But ...!
Given that the other option was land at the bottom and try to get a lift back up and probably miss out of my vino tinto and tapas, I went for the roller-coaster ride. It was strong, it was quite easterly and lumpy and times it was pretty windy and exciting but it was good fun in a slightly mad kind of way :-D
More importantly 10 minutes later I was back up top.
Various landing attempts later we all back at the truck with the pup, the wine, lots more clothes and big smiles!

... another top landing approach!

Agua-Truck

Monday was just too windy and east again so after watching the tandems 'parked' and a fly-down / fly-off between a new Mentor2 and a very old Ozone dhv1 wing, we headed to the lake where an afternoon of relaxing and some silliness kept us amused.