The rest of us were just getting ready, and waited for the wind to come on. There was only a short window to launch before the wind increased and the thermals started making it gusty on launch. In the air it was easy out front and rough over takeoff, with the strong inversion at 1300 M not budging. it was soon blown out for paragliders, but half a dozen hang glider pilots still launched and were playing in the thermic windy conditions. Very buoyant conditions made it possible to fly quite far out front of takeoff over the valley without really loosing much height.
An hour or so later, The three paragliders in the air soon called it quits and landed down in the bomout. There was a very strong wind gradient making setting up for landing challenging. The first of the hang glider pilots also landed soon after, making use of the large landing area to full effect as they hit a cycle when on final, drawing out the ground effect run and messing with their flair.
Later in the evening conditions mellowed for a while after 4:30. With no thermals, but still a strong wind, Julian launched in his mini-paraglider to enjoy the glassoff. Ado came back out and gave us some fun ground handling with his mini wing, before he also launched to join Julian. It backed off rapidly and I launched my paraglider to enjoy the soaring until sunset. We were all able to top land, with the wind backing right off at sunset.
Soon after sunset the wind started building again and kept up for the rest of the weekend. In all we had four days in one; early morning thermalling in light wind, strong ridge soaring with some thermals, hang-glider only strong ridge soaring and thermals and a sunset glassoff ridge soaring.
