Mon: more clouds and humidity than expected. After an excellent breakfast and having looked for the LZ here in las Margaritas we left for Risaralda.
Risaralda is a small, but busy village sitting on top of the mauntain ridge. After a short hike from the end of the drivable 2*2-wheel road, we've reached a TO on top of a small hill, facing NE to SE; as well as SW to W. Unfortunately with so many clouds and no sun, the 'normal' wind pattern didn't set in and wind came from WNW. This direction is alsmost cross to the small launch and only some of us decided to launch, Kari Gudrun and I declined and in the end walked back to our bus. But there have been some very nice x-wind launches!
...but some of them landed closer to our accommodation.
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| Michael in the LZ - just a little exaggerated ;-) |
As there was no improvement to be expected and el Brillante, a site facing the wind is a 1.5hrs-drive away, we didn't think it would be worth the drive...
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| Again a nice dinner at our accommodation! |
PS: there has been a Colombian guy on launch which has taken many pictures; once they become available, I'll do another post about today's 'adventure'.
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