Another showery north-westerly was on today's menu. I decided to explore the Lure-Ventoux mountain, using ridge lift and thermals to get me to Mont Ventoux. To the west the ridge fell away into the Rhone valley but further progress was discouraged by a thick sheet of 8/8ths and no discernable cumulus. I made my way back to the Sisteron valley to find that conditions to the north had now opened up.

Mont Ventoux

Glandasse

The Vercors is a north/south plateau that reaches an altitude of 6500ft and extends from east of Die to Grenoble. It falls away towards the Rhone valley to the west as a series of north/south fingers, each of which is soarable in a north-westerly wind. I made a brief foray past the col de Rousset as far as the But St Genix, to the north west of the town of Die, before calling it a day and returning home. Total distance for the day was 319km.

Vercors