Tough Day at the Mount

With the equinox winds in full stride, the Mount would normally be pretty good in a big westerly off the top - but today it was as fickle as a feather - good strong lift one moment followed by sink the next. I was up there with Ralphie and Johnny but after a nice ballasted fly with the Flanker I tried for a second flight and the sink caught me out taking the plane way way down until it mushed out into the grass right down the bottom.

On a later flight from further round the top at the end of the day I got into differculties again. It was really hard to keeep orientaton of the beast as we were staring into the hazy glare of the late afternoon sun. Lost it again - this time over the back of the steep north face and had a mammoth task retrieving it. Had to climb up from the bottom, then I thought it was too steep to descend with plane, so, after overcoming my fear on a steep face, I managed to climb back to the top by chucking the plane up ahead a few feet at a time. Phew.

Hope you like the video here - one of Ralph's Graphite - the other of Johnny's new Banshee sloper.

And here's the Patriot at Raglan

Raglan Videos

Ok, here's my first attempt at posting a video to the flog. This is from a great day Ralph and I had at Raglan in early November.