Possible thunderstorms forecast for this afternoon so we suspected it would be an early day. We were planning on a possible out and return to the north, but once in the air the wind was too strong to allow for that direction.
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| To the north it looked good, but too windy to reach. |
However to the south the storms were brewing so we couldn't go that way either. We were stuck between the NW wind and the southern storms so it wasn't going to be an XC day.
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| To the south, not so great! |
There were a few cells brewing nearby, one SW of us, and another about 20 km downrange, so after an hour I decided it was time to land. Shortly thereafter it was raining paragliders into the Muller Flight Park as most other pilots decided the same thing.
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| Packing up as the cell starts to spit out rain. |
We did have one launch incident with a hang glider tail hitting another pilot, causing the hang glider to mush into the ground below the ramp. Both pilots were OK with only a broken down tube to fix! In the air it was a bit mayhemic as it wasn't that lifty, we were fighting to get to 2300m, and the thermals were a bit small. So it was crowded and we had to keep our heads on a swivel to avoid any mid airs.
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| Stormy sunset. |
A swim at Cedar Lake and some watching of the rope swing (we didn't go this time, it looked sketchy, and another person, not with our group, dislocated his shoulder falling into water). Then a perfect apres-storm sunset to round out the day!
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