On Friday night the weather looked rubbish, too south, too strong for Saturday.
Saturday morning came, and Windmap had Ronaldsway, west, 12 mph backing to the south and increasing. An early start was required if we had any chance. Keith, Jamie and I headed to Sartfell. After what looked like a totally blown out situation going over the mountain, Sartfell lander had a nice breeze from the SW . Ten minutes later we were at the top watching cloud base drop to about 20 metres above sea level at Peel. The cloud soon engulfed us, but was not that thick and all looked smashing the other side. Had a few hops into a fickle breeze (about 7 mph) before things started to get organised. It got thermic real quick and soon enough we were all getting some real nice soaring with the odd 360.
As is often the way, once above 130 metres (ato) it became a lot easier to maintain height - so headed out and towards the south. Soon enough another week cycle came through that had me thermalling back to the hill. Was going up surprisingly nicely for so early in the day (11.30ish) so stuck with it for a bit over the back. The thermal kept giving and with Jamie dropping in beneath, both had a lazy climb out to Freghane (or whatever it is called!)
