October skies :) The day wasn't exactly as planned since the levante wasn't forecast anywhere ... the dust devils on the top were immense, 'gift-wrapping' more than a few of the visiting French & German pilots :D

A few crasy French guys decided to hurl themselves into the rotor from Coll d'Ares but after watching them fight their wings all the way to the bomb-out I bravely ran away to Franceses. Its funny that when there are 5 tandems in the air and local pilots on a different ( but visible) part of the mountain the tourists were still trying to take off in 90degree cross-wind! In the late afternoon we had a scoot around the rocks and some very close encounters with the Mare de Déu de Pedra.

Mare de Déu de Pedra

... slightly too close & slightly scared! ;-)