Tuesday 2 October 2007

Waving in shirtsleeves

Today started with bright blue sky and nil wind on the ground. A couple of small lenticular clouds appeared at high level to the west and everyone started to launch and not come back down. The tally for the day is as follows: -
  • Jane 118: 9200' Lochnagar and Balmoral
  • Jim 208: 8500' Mount Keen
  • Bob 279: 9400' Lochnagar
  • Derek 249: 5300' Mount Keen
  • Phil 971: 5000' Mount Keen
  • Bob 208: 8200' Mount Keen and Balmoral
  • Geoff GA: 8000' Feshie
  • Dennis 370: 8000' Balmoral
  • Mike C & Glyn 3D: 8200' Balmoral
  • Mike C & Martin 315: 7700'
  • John JH: 8000' Loch Muick & Balmoral
  • Byass & Steve Brown 315: Unknown Glenshee
  • Rolf (Flugzeugfuhrer) 318: 7000' Loch Muick

Typical view of mountains in Scotland from around 8000'


William in 318 reaching for the moon



If you look closely you can actually see the Queen waving from the balcony of Balmoral


View after de-rigging and before the bar (where we are blogging from)

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