Friday, July 06, 2007

Runing through the cloud

I still hadn't passed all my exams, but thank God, Randomize, last weekend we eventually went flying :). 2 days of typical summer weather, when u have 2-4 hours in the early afternoon to soar, unstill u stuck into some huge overdeveloping cloud or even thunderstorm. Saturday seemed to be just like this.
I launched clearly and took my 500 meters. Alex, my friend, were already climbing above me. Looked like he had just 800meters, but when I unhooked absolutely nothing was around. Just -2,5 everywhere, I hardly got back to the start.
Alex had already gone far off, when I made the second attempt. This time I had luck to find -0,5 and start searching. Those deep gullies 2,5km to the south seemed quite tasty and I headed for them. My hopes where justified! Flat +1,3 rapidly became +2,5 and soon a huge cloud where laying over me....
At first, I wanted to escape to avoid getting in, but soon considered: "Why not"? The cloud wasn't too aggressive, I was climbing in a smooth +3 lift on the edge of it, and it's better to test the cloud now, than to be sucked into a thunderstorm later with no ideas what to do :)p Great justification)))))

So I did it! I got closer to a huge gray wall! All was like a dream, like a scary breathtaking dream! The cloud felt to be made of wet snow. Cut off parts where tumbling near by. Everything moved! For a few seconds the ground gone, I pulled the bar... one..... two.... three... and fell out of the cloud! WOW! Laughing, like an idiot :D

Playing, I almost forgot about the ground and retrieval road. My glider was blew quite far from it, where was no roads at all, except railway... Ha! To get back on the train!...Come on....

I headed back and spent all 1400m to reach the road-line// Anyway, it was a 25km route)))))



Flights: 2
Time: 2,5h