Weissenstein

Todays (excellent) thermal forecast for the Jura region:

(Hotel Weissenstein) ...already the flag indicates, that there is wind...

As Föhn was forecast in the Alps, 'everybody' flocked to the Jura and especially to 'Weissenstein', which is easily reachable by a gondola.

Finsteraarhorn, Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau...

BUT: unfortunately the wind was much stronger than forcasted and also out of a much more northeasterly direction :-((
Comment by Chrigel Maurer about the conditions (the SwissLeague was holding a task here):
Die Bedingungen sind schlechter als prognostiziert:
- mehr Wind (10-15kn aus NE)
- Thermik ist nicht angenehm und zu schwach für den Wind
 
Most pilots launched anyway (also my friend Andy), but an estimated 5% elected to go down using the gondola (me amongst them). Andy reported later that it had not been 'really clean' ;-)    But certainly some great flights were made today.

also some 'not so nice' launches could be seen...