Managed five flights at La Clusaz inbetween the snowboarding last week. Three 1,900ft ttb's and two thermal flights. Quite pleasant views and easy flying. Amazing how the thermal 'shut off and on' worked in the cold conditions over there. Mainly black house roof generated thermals (due to lack of snow in the village) and these were small but gentle. Max 10ft/s up but mostly 3ft/s up. Launches easy from the Beauregard (on foot) four reverse in 5mph winds and landings were tight but easy in a light uphill katabatic in the town (next to the lift)

Snow was ok on piste but awful off it.

Richard

Sunday 14th January afternoon
Scaresfield beacon 14-20mph wsw on top, 6-8mph down below
Apptly named.

Ground handling was what we intended to do
We were on the bottom/slope landing area in front of TO about 150ft down. I was just going to fly down to a clear area where Jez had moved to about 20ft beneath my rigging area (as I had got the lines caught on a small bush after a frontal collapse). So off I went, and up I went, and up I went and back I went and then back I went very fast and down I went into the field behind the road and carried out an excellent landing. But the bit in between was not smooth and I used pretty much full brake, no brake and all sorts in between to reinflate the wing in between trying to stay pointing into wind. Still it was a nice afternoon out in the country and I did fly, albeit with very little actual definitive control.
Dave