(Roque de los Muchachos)

The last 2 days no flights have been possible due to the wind situation (south / Calima). As the wx otherwise has been really nice we did some sightseeing...
Today we wanted to fly from Roque de los Muchachos, as the fcst (and actual) wind showed the required west component for launch at 2100m. As none of us had flown from there, we haven't been sure of how to get there. 

Bernd & Hart

looking into the caldera

launch is on the hill on the left

Our route decision turned out to be the wrong one :-((  It took much longer and was much harder than we had immagined. Therefore we arrived on launch at least an hour later than anticipated. And probably this 'delay' was the reason we couldn't laucnh anymore safely: the wind had swiched to NE...  I tried to launch twice, but failed.

looking back to Roque de los Muchachos

Launch looking west; the first 500m of the flight look a bit tricky...

So we had to hike down: a long and arduous descent. This brought me really to my phisical limits...