Thursday, 22 January 2026

CO'26 21.1. Filadelfia (> Cauca Veja)

Wed. Another lousy night with lots of coughing andnot feeling really well rested. Vincent has left us after breakfast by taxi to MDE for his flights back home. MDE-CTG-ZRH-GVA. The rest headed for Filadelfia, a nice little town at 1600m, with a very well prepared TO at 1850.

Edinson had organized Frank, a local pilot, who gave us a good site briefing. We had to wait a bit, before conditions turned on. Today it has been a bit harder to stay up / high and feeling tired /unwell I didn't fight for too long ;-)

launch (to the right of highest point)
Filadelfia
heading for the LZ (in front of pod)
Igor about to land...
Luckily (for me) Igor also sank out, as today I would barely have been able to carry my gear to the nearest pick-up point (even though only 500m away) - I felt just too weak. We have been collected by Esteban and Gudrun (who had top landed) and then went looking for the rest: all have been able to get away direction 'la Merced'.
After about 2hrs (with a stop for 'dinner') we reached our next 'base': Cauca Veja.

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