iCamp-Levico Terme 2.8.26 - Feltre / 3.8. Vetriolo

1.8. (Sat) I've driven as usual via 'Flüela Pass - Ofenpass - Münstertal - Merano - Bolzano - Trento'; until reaching Italy the traffic has been very easy, afterwards it became slow due to heavy traffic: I lost about 1 hour after leaving Switzerland... No flight in the afternoon due to wx (CBs)

2.8. (Sun) Feltre/ Monte Avena has been selected. I made a (short) flight in the late morning: thermal conditions still too week. 

        East launch on Monte Avena

            East launch on Monte Avena

        LZ

Some did some groundhandling on the east launch when we came back up again, but for me it has been still too warm...

As the wind shifted, we moved to the south launch, a bit further up, But I didn't fly due to the unsteady S-wind and a big CB has been growing to the north,

        Michael toplanding

3.8. (Mon) We remaind at Levico for launching at Vetriolo. It took quite a while before thermals became well established and I launched as one of the last at 1310 - due to lots of pilots and I wanted to have my time and also enough space for preparing my launch. I scratched around for almost 30mins around 1200m (several times thinking to quite and go for landing...) before I finally found good thermals; but then I got up to 2900m :-) I landed after 1.25hrs on the LZ.

LZ

I didn't go for a second launch as it has been way to 'warm' for me for packing ny gear a second time ad waiting for the bus. I have been the only one to eat dinner at 1900, the rest started only after 2015...

PS: luckily I didn't fly a second flight as the conditions have not been 'nice': thermals everywhere and strong winds in the valley: Peter asked the pilots not to land for the next 1.5hr: gusts >= 43kmh at the LZ...