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Sunshine, at last...


Business as usual at Sisteron

Well, almost. After a good start, the weather to the north, over the Ecrins, declined to cooperate and we were left with a sheet of stratus covering most of the interesting peaks. I managed to reach Guillaume and the tete de Lucy where I decided that following the main spine of the Ecrins was preferable to dipping into the St Crepin valley. At this stage there was little sun on the ground and the clouds were becoming less like cumulus and more like stratus, so I did a short O/R to the Pas de la Cavale and, when it started to rain, decided to head south again.

I spent a little time hunting for wave around Chabre and Serre, but with little success - the only memorable point was when I got beaten up (again!) by Klaus and his Gang of Four, in a strongish thermal over Serres.

In summary, good to be airborne again, but the weather today didn't allow much freedom to roam the mountains as we would have liked.


Grande Seolene from les Trois Eveches


Stratus over the Ecrins


Instructor Jean-Pierre ponders his next conquest

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