The only promising forecast for North Wales this week, and expectations were high for the North Hill Nomads, but there was a cloudy frontal clearance to deal with first. ...
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| Morning rigging ready for the clearance (Jill Harmer) |
Everyone was rigged and ready before lunchtime, (and rather later than hoped for) Chris Gill invited Rod Witter to test the conditions before the holes really developed in the lowish clouds. Local knowledge for the hot spots is a great help and Rod reported climbing heading for the Conwy valley.
The single seaters were swiftly launched behind the Eurofox with Jonathan May as Tuggie, some made contact with the wave easily and others struggled. Everyone commented on how short the usable beats were, and that the sky was quite confusing.
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| In between layers (Wyn Davies) |
Pete Startup 230 enjoyed a nice 100km round Cerrig, Bala and Vrynwy and up to 10,600ft. Tom Sides in DG1 and Nick Harrison in JDD got into the local wave but found it tricky to step up through the transition to the higher systems.
Wyn Davies in W7 was keen to continue his exploration of Snowdon having walked it yesterday, He found his way into the higher system topping out at 15,000ft and then went for a tour of Great Orme before descending back through the multiple cloud layers.
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| Great cloudscapes (Wyn Davies) |
The 2-seaters were at the back of the queue to allow Jonathan time to asses the wind for launching them with the Eurofox. Unfortunately the wind had dropped off a bit and so Chris Gill got the winch out and the Turbos fired up at the top of the winch launch.
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| At times confusing skies (Jill Harmer) |
Pete and Jill in OL motored into a rather confused sky but found small beats to the south to climb in, topping out at 8,500ft. A decision was made to spiral down through the increasingly closing gaps as the day was drawing to an end.
The best (only) usable day of the week. (Should have been here last week ....or next week!) - J&P
