Briefing was punctuated by the beeps and squawks of vintage iPaqs as Ben manfullly struggled and failed to load the right turnpoint files.
Launch was delayed until 1300hrs and was into a crystal clear blue sky, still air and not a single Cu in sight. However, when the tug hit lift at 1000' above the field the red mist came down, auto-reflex took over and I released, then struggled away from the therms kicking off the local hill. It took a while for JTU and KV to get launched but we eventually met up and headed East. A couple of weak climbs near Malaup, Les Monges and Blayeul and we were onto the slopes of Trois Eveches. We scraped over into the Allos valley and one further East into Cime de Pal, using the ridges to around 9000' as the good looking Cu didn't seem to work. Even the Buzzards were taking the mickey as under the best Cu of the day one was folding its wings, diving, pulling up and I swear was practising stall turns.
Around 1730 the more sensible of us pushed off home for the first beat ups of the week. Dan pushed on to Guillaume for a scrape home and then the evening disintegrated into a retrieve for Ben Crook (again) and a few other bits of excitement - which fortunately all ended well. Thank goodness.
Cake of the day: Blueberry muffin
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