Day 1 : Task 0
The opening ceremony last night at the Tourist Hotel was a big success with paragliding senior politicians, smoke bombs, tick-a-tape and slinky violinists ... and all that excitement followed by a massive buffet and far too much rice wine ;-)
As the buses dropped us back in MunGyoeng the masses converged on a small shop and drank more fire- until well after a sensible time!
The wind was still howling as we staggered to bed BUT at 05:45 the Gin team were seen outside on the river bank preparing gliders ... the wind had stopped and they then flew from until 9am (During this time we were still nearly unconscious and trying to ignore the daylight and the distinct lack of rattling trees ... )
Needless to say, after the festivities, the 10am 1st briefing this morning was a subdued affair as most pilots were still sleeping, even those in attendence were not totally with us! Aspirin had little effect on the aftershock from Russian and Norweigan hooch!

As we met at the landing field it became obvious that the wind was picking up and along with the forecast of strengthening wind in the afternoon we decided to cancel the task without going up to the mountain.

Task Committee: Denis & Pepe ;-)

The general feeling was relief as pilots had time to relax in the warm sunshine at the landing field, pimp gliders, stick numbers, sleep and all indulge in all the silliness that usually happens on a non flying day!
2 pilots did have the cojones to free-fly but conditions looked unpleasantly wobbly to say the least - after Ogi had been bounced around for a while a 'level 4' was called even for free-flying! ;-)
We have some time now for dealing with small teething problems and then a full week of flying ahead of us :))))))))