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| This was an almost identical repeat of yesterday. Conditions were good enough to visit Briancon but the lower cloudbases further north prevented further progress. I had a particularly hard time on
Prachaval, the magic mountain near St Crepin, which was today behaving more like the spin cycle of a washing machine. The north-east wind chopped the thermals on its sunny face making it something of a struggle to reach the top. Not all of us made it - Wendy in her ASW 27 (700) called it a day and landed at St
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Frozen lake near Plampinet
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Pelvoux
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I managed to reach the Val d'Etroit (west of
Bardonecchia) and then took a scenic route home via the glacier Blanc and the col de
Couleau. A short tour along the parcours in 8/8ths and poor visibility persuaded me back to the sunshine of the Gap valley and an
early landing.
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Other pilots had their own problems, of course, and Ariane's came in the form of a complete failure of
her pneumatic instruments, noticed as she was on tow. After landing back, investigations revealed the presence of a
small spider which had set up home somewhere along the pitot system. The close attentions of a Bruce the bailiff
soon had it evicted and Ariane was ready to fly again.
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Morgon's southern face
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