Thursday, 6 August 2015

Arosa in August -2

Yesterday late afternoon my friends from Italy have arrived: Nicole and Alberto. They stay 2 nights at my place in Arosa. Tomorrow we'll all move to Disentis, where Nicole will participate in the PWC. So yesterday we drove to 'Medergen' to have dinner together and enjoy the sunset.


dinner in Medergen
Sunset at 2040.
Today up to the Weisshorn - of course hoping to fly.
We watched Peter (and some other pilots) taking off in the 'Rööslhang'. He climbed nicely up to 3300m and had a nice flight. Conditions became again very tricky with the wind coming from all different directions. In the end we decided that I would try to launch from the same position as yesterday further down the mountain. But also here the wind was switchy, much more out of the North and less thermic :-((



I could finally launch but didn't find anything usable, so in the end I had to glad  to be able cross the 'Carmenna Pass' - rather low and in a tail wind.
Uneventful landing in the 'Isla', the only ok thernals to be found above the LZ (where else?). 
Having watched my very unspectacular flight, Nicole and Alberto decided not to fly, which really is a pitty, as they missed seeing Arosa from a birds view.

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