blease fell was good today for some ron

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:42 pm

well we all had a great day in the happy bus the john had to have a bar meal to cheer himself up. run had a fantastic flight getting melmerby with brian enjoying a flight to sooter and on to grassmere and nearly back and i went to jenkin and then clough helvelin and back t take off. shame the hill had shut down as i think there more to be had liam had a great flight getting his pb for height gains and got to fly in the most spectacular part of the country brian nelist mis the thermal but ended with a nice fly down and a bit boat about

cheers gary

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Chris L · Post by **Chris L** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:16 am

Nice one guys I didn't have the best of days; having planned a good XC route; bombing out taking off to early then walking from Doddick Fell back to Blease well over 1hour after getting glider wrapped in heather Then took off again and got to Souther at Cloud base and instead of following the cloud toward Penrith (flying with Steve Etherington) decided to go back toward Blease to try my declared triangle (Doh!) only to bomb out again past St Johns in the Vale and wrap my glider around a barb wire fence on landing. Doh

Consolation was a lovely speedfly off Blease Summit with Jan, Rob & Dave and walking to the pub to indulge in the ales
Good fun all the same

Chris L · Post by **Chris L** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:15 am

Video of speedfly off Blease
http://youtu.be/H97ifyoBon8

Chris L · Post by **Chris L** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:13 am

Well don't feel so bad about my flight at Blease on Saturday when I noticed Richard Carter put his flight on the XC league and did almost the same thing as me Off to early; bombed out walked back up; took off about the same time for a second attempt went to Souther at cloud base pushed out front to what looked like a good cloud street and bombed out again

Ah well paragliding can be great or bloody frustrating at times
One of those days I guess