After three days off due to adverse weather conditions we were really looking forward to some improvement in the weather, but we were to be disappointed, The sky was actually whiter today than it appears in the photo, and with a 15 kt southerly we placed our hopes for a reasonable day on the ridge of Malaup working.

I reached it only to find that the wind up there was only 1 knot, and with no sun on the rocks there was little hope of staying airborne. Of course I kept looking for a climb until I was at the far end of downwind before flying in to a 3-knotter on low final. I guess it was just one of those days...

Some of us had better luck; recent arrival Wendy, on her first outing this season, managed to find thermal-cum-wave between Hongrie and Malaup, keeping herself airborne for two or three hours up to 7000ft, with little prospect of going further afield today. I do hear rumours, however, that Lasham guest John Caton achieved a more respectable result by banging around the cuvette as far as the tete de Lucy. I'm not saying that having a turbo was an advantage...but he had a turbo! Well done, anyway.

John: Well done Wendy...(grrrr!!!)