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When we headed north towards our next turn point it was
already late and the conditions were deteriorating. We went right into the
furthest corner of our task (probably a mistake at that time). We
climb at Tete d'Amont and headed south for our last turn point. We could not
cross the pas de la Cavale so elected to come back the long way via Guillaume.
Finally we felt we had taken too long and were going to land straight
back when at 1200m at the Crete de Selles we were rewarded by a favourable
ridge all the way to Montagne d'Aujour to give us enough height to turn the
last point. After our 160kph final glide home we learned that we were the
only glider still airborne except for John and Martin in WE4.
PS: As a further note to yesterday's 'poor day' on which
very few non-competition pilots flew, Dudu, professional airline pilot and
local pundit, managed a 1020km yo-yo in his Nimbus 3. Which just goes to
show how little the rest of us know...
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Low in the Ecrins
Grande Seolene
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