Day 3 Task3 : 71 km
Quote of the day "...its the best place on earth for racing paragliders"

The morning looked like most Rolda mornings. But just to stop us getting bored or relax too much, the weather Goddess threw in some sunshine and back-wind at the take-off to make things different from the earlier days. Dust Devils took a few gliders for a spin, twist and stall while we were deep into the task setting discussions. Its incredible how well these things recover without anyone interfering with them ;-)

Thermal generator ;-)

My handsome task setting committee of Adam, Hugo & Jonathon (they asked me to make mention of that ;-) ) & I discussed a few interesting options for the day and finally since we had a forecast of more west wind decided on a mainly valley task with various route options/decisions.
An exit start over Roldanillo, next to Obando airstrip, La Paila, El Molino in the east, back to Rolda antennas and then goal near Zarzal.

Task 3 - Gol in Zarzal

The sky opened after a slightly slow start with beautiful fluffy clouds and for the first time this week good solid climbs 3-4m/s all along the task route and finished as the pilots arrived in goal with so much lift that gliders were going up in big-ears as if they were thermalling!

A sky that dreams are made of :)

Again, lots of happy face in goal, about 80 pilots made it, and many many comments about another great task. To finish the day/night we are all invited to a Colombia Cloudbase party to celebrate the days adventures.

This is probably one of the very few Open Class competitions that will be allowed to be run this year.
The incident score so far;
0 open class gliders - 4 serial/sports class wings. 

These 'safe' gliders seem to be more trouble than the 'scary' comp wings in the generally fluffy, mild conditions we have here this week ;-)

Crasy chica of the day award goes to Ukranian Olga.
The story ... after getting near to a cloud and not escaping with big-ears & speedbar she was sucked inside. After some time she started to be disorientated and didn't know where the mountain was and she was still going up ... so her next manoevre was a B-line stall. Unfortunately, after after some unintentional acro, the glider went negative and she realised that she couldn't get it out so threw her rescue.
A long journey to earth followed which put her on the ground just metres from the high-voltage electricity cables halfway up the mountain - lucky girl!!
After getting herself together mentally & physically she packed up her wing and rescue and "decided not to bother the organisation" and started to walk/climb down the mountain ... 4 hours later, in the dark, after an epic scramble through forest, over rocks and down gulleys she reached farmland and cows but after walking some more she couldn't find a road.
In her own words, that's the time when she "decided to cry, but it didn't help " so she them called organisation to come find her!!!
A scary cloud experience, and SIV without the 'S', a reserve ride, a 4 hour walk down a mountain with a glider on her back and when I just asked her why she didn't ask for help; the answer was "I am STRONG girl" ... WAY stronger than most of the guys here I think  ;-) !!    :)  :)

Task 3
1 . Brad Gunnuscio  USA (R11)
2. Julian Andres Carreño COL  (R10)
3. Mathieu Vermeil FR  (R11)

Overall after 3 tasks
1. Julian Andres Carreño COL  (R10)
2. Steban Novoa Smith COL (R11)
3. Mathieu Vermeil FR (R11)

Task result here
Overall results here

Every girl needs a trusty Willy! ;-)