Yesterday's flying was called off when thick top cover spread over the valley from the west. We watched the ensuing storm with interest from Mike and Angie's house in the Jabron.

This turned out not to be one of those good days. The Gache worked well in the moderate north-westerly, but only to around 5000ft. All explorations to locate the wave in the the usual places were met with failure and the thermals took an age to get going but the better weather remained just out of reach. The Gache worked well all day, so we always had that to fall back on, but the sense of déja vu was getting a bit wearing. At least one of the others made it to the Lure, and we did watch a squadron of five or six gliders, possibly from Serres, float past towards Jouere and back again to the Jabron but for us it remained a frustrating day.