Rain, Reigning Champion, & Getting Stitched Up!
Streaming Clouds in a Brief Moment,
before Clouding Over Again
Woke up to heavy grey skies this morning. Had my first shoulder massage session, it was very relaxing. On the way home, it started spotting with rain, within half an hour it was blowing the shivers off me timbers, and hammering down. It seemed like a good day to sort out the little niggle with my flight deck that revealed itself on launch the other day. Dennis also needed a bit of work on his set up too. We checked to see if Denis Kortella was available, and luckily enough he was. It usually works out that way when it’s pouring down.
We were there at 10.00am and Denis very kindly made some minor adjustments with a bit of stitching here and there, and presto job done! Whislt we were there another ‘para-celeb’ face arrived, funnily enough I was reading her interview in XC Mag only yesterday. Elisa Houdry walked in (the current Womens World Paragliding Champion) for some minor adjustments and alterations of her own. We chatted about the upcoming Polish Open in Levico Terme, in Italy. Both Dennis and me, have enterd, but are having diffuculty with other commitments, dog sitters and other issues, so it is looking more and more likely that we wont be able to make this one. Such a shame it looks like a beautiful place. Elisa was saying that the French Team do a lot of their practicing there, so that’s how good it is! I know a lot of French Pilots have entered it’s a very popular one. Drat… anyway, it was interesting that she used to fly a Gin Race, but it seems has since defected to Kortel, it turned out to be quite an eventful busy morning.
We had a little clearance in the sky, but it was short lived and the rain returned. Snow level is down to 1300 meteres, so it’s looking decidedly more like the skis maybe resurfacing. We’ve both got Transfers later this evening to different destinations, Dennis to Megeve and me to Les Houches…. The weather isn’t looking particularly promising for tomorrow but we’ll see.
