Happy Holidays...

With my best wishes for X-Mas and the upcoming New Year!
- may 2011 bring you new adventures and safe flights!

Fly high! Fly safe!

Arosa

The change in temperature from Brazil (20-40ºC) to Arosa today (ca. -20ºC at launch at 2650m) was quite abrupt; but none the less I could make 2 flights: only sled rides, but at least the vario beeped twice ;-)

Launch on top of the "Aroser Weisshorn (2650m)

Arosa - the slopes are in perfect condition!

If the "Föhn" will not be too strong tomorrow (SUN); I'll try again...
Info about "Föhn".

All about AROSA
Paragliding in Arosa

Brazil - conclusion

What shall I say?
- Quixada has been a great adventure;
though "flat land flying" still remains quite a mystery to me...
But being in the company of those eager XC-pilots from different countries has been very interesting and there remains still quite a lot for me to learn.
- "The South": maybe my expectations have been too high, but -though we could fly almost every day thanks to Andy's wisely choosing of our itinerary- the flying didn't quite measure up. Here the most worthy thing remembering remains the friendliness and hospitality of the local Brazilian pilots; they went out of their way to make us feel at home and get us flying! This is certainly something which is (unfortunately) hard to be found here in Europe anymore.

Muito obrigado por todo!

Brazil -the trip has come to an end

Meanwhile I'm back home in Switzerland, where we got snow last Thursday (which crippled the transportation system to quite some degree)
I also had time to sort trough my pictures, have them worked over and uploaded them to Flickr. Here they are:
"the South"
Quixada

My thanks go to all who have contributed to a successful trip:
Andy and Moni from Fly with Andy for organising this trip.

In Quixada:
- Almeida from Hotel Pousada Pedra dos Ventos;
- Paolo and his crew on TO at Quixada;
- Bello, Gio and all the retrieve drivers...

In the "South":
- the friendly pilots and their friends in Encantado (we won't forget your fine dinner!);
- the drivers from Encantado's Jeep Club, for bringing us and our gear to launch;
- the dentist in Encantado for expertly repairing my filling at short notice;
- Cacapava's pilots for introducing us to their site;
- Sergio in Gaspar from Raul's Hotel for an excellent dinner and taking his time to guide us/ me around.

Urs: best wishes to a quick recovery from your injury!


X-Mas tree at the club house at
Morro Azul's LZ in Pomerode.