Fanas -again

What a difference to yesterday! Today the fcst/ regtherm has been too pessimistic, meaning that the actual conditions have been much better than anticipated: better climbs, less cloud cover during the early afternoon, less wind...

crossing towards Stels, Chrüz

Madrisa

It has been pretty easy going towards Klosters with strong but not (too) bumpy climbs.

Klosters, looking back towards Fanas

Davos

Until Davos-Wolfgang -as usually- I had no problems. But here I had to make up my mind about which side of the valley to follow. As I originally had wanted to cross the Strelapass and then fly towards Schanfigg/ Arosa, I choose to head towards Parsenn (right side of pix). But no luck: just some pretty strong tailwind and broken thermals :-(

Davos-Platz

So I decided to land in Davos-Platz, near the railway station, where I could catch a (direct) train back to Schiers, where I had parked my car.
All in all a very nice flight with (for me) a rather high average speed (27kmh).
This has been the last flight for this month, as on Saturday I'll be leaving for Ireland together with Ruth; return is planned for 3dr June.

Fanas

Fanas with Andy: we have been expecting lots of clouds today, BUT not that early (shortly after 1100). For quite a while everything was shadowed in and so we had to wait...
Finally, as the hill below launch caught some sun again and thermals develloped we could launch: Andy was first and I followed immediately behind. He decided to turn right (where you'd normally go only later in the afternoon), but it proved to be the correct desicion, as there the shadows had dissappeared earlier.

Andy

me (by Andy (GoPro))

looking down to 'Hörnli' and the other launch(es)

Andy tried to fly west (towards 'Walensee') as to the east (Klosters) everything was in the shade, but once out in the Rhine valley, the influence of the east wind ('Bise') was still too strong so he had to land near 'Landquart'. I on the other hand cruised around only locally and landed after a little more than 1 hour near my car in 'Schiers' :-))

Sassauna

Tomorrow I'll try again here, although the forecast is very similar to today; we'll see...