Condor Racing
Tuesday's alpine trip was 215kms rerun of the Eurobattle Day 7 race in Northern Italy with a moderate southsoutheasterly wind. Stewart briefed everyone on the winners' fastest route. The regulars were a little depleted as this was the last decent gardening day before the forecast rain and gales.
Five made it to the airborne start at Belluno, and there was a bit of wave around before having to drop down to 5,900ft for the start. The first leg was a reasonable ridge run as briefed, although at times some of the green ridges all looked the same!
On the second leg, a good climb to cloudbase and some careful routing and use of intowind ridges was needed to cross the higher mountains to the north. The third leg south was a retrace the route initially, and then get high enough for the dash out in the plains to the southern turnpoint at Aviano.
A quick run back to higher ground and get some more height to be able to jump the ridge on the final glide. Thanks to Stewart's guidance it was a very pleasant run for all, great scenery as always and good company. Come and join us - J&P
