On Sunday the forecast for Tuesday looked pretty good for some more fun at Talgarth, so plans were made and Pete S (Discus 230), JB (Ventus KJW) and Matt (ASW20 M5) braved the week day traffic on the M5 with the aim to get to Talgarth with enough time to rig before the 10am briefing.
The cheesy grin says it all!
The wind was a very strong westerly at 20 kts increasing to 45kts at 5500', which made the ridges incredibly rough and the unstable airmass meant that the thermal convection played havoc with the wave that was trying to set up.
The aero-tows dropped us on Y Das and after trying to fly south skimming the ridge on the eastern side of the Cwmdu valley, we managed to find some wave and take refuge from the bone jarring ride low down.
JB cruising in wave
Pete and JB managed to get to 5500' in the wave and Matt followed a cloud street west over Brecon village (bit bigger than a village Matt was corrected by a local) and jumped across on to Pen Y Fan the highest point of the beacons to check out some hill walkers. Pete and JB pushed out west but a small shower scuppered their plans to follow and they retreated back to the catch net of Langors ridge.
We enjoyed, ridge, wave and thermal lift, keeping us airborne for over 5 hours and were forced to land eventually by the lowering sun and even lower temperature. Winter is definitely on its way!
Pen Y Fan
