Bastille Day, July 14 (1789!)
Samoens Landing
Windy day today, no flying, so we decided to take a drive out into the Samoëns valley and have a look at some other sites, that we haven’t visited for some time.
Mountain Bike Trail Les Gets
First Samoëns, we saw a couple of gliders doing some top to bottoms launching off a secret place, because we couldn’t find it! It was a low safe take off though, so no climb outs, too windy anyway! We made our way up to the unofficial Borgeoise Launch where it was howling! Far too strong, but at least is was nice to go up and have a look. It was south facing and would be great when the wind isn’t so forceful a presence. From there we looked straight across to Samoëns, which would start to work later in the day. We had a nice meeting with an Argentinian Pilot working there who was giving us a really detailed lowdown on the area.
Next we tootled off to Les Gets, further along the valley, lovely town, and great for mountain bikers it’s really geared up for mountain biking in the summer with carved out sections, an excellent purpose built bike park! It’s a popular flying site but no-one flying today. No matter it’s nice to do a spot of tourism occassionally.
Lastly a stop off in Mieussy, where they’ve changed the landing area, much better. There’s a good drive up a track to the launch, again a great launch area! On the way back a visit with our friends who live in St. Sigismond, have recently returned from a UK visit, with lots of lovely goodies from Blighty, aaah! Late afternoon a couple of gliders were practicing a few acro moves flying off Agy, over the house where a thermal was elevating about eight buzzards! Nice spot to drink tea! It was very late before the wind dropped and only two acro gliders flew, and only for a few minutes!
Well it’s Bastille Day here today, and the fireworks are letting rip at the moment. Dennis is on a Transfer run this evening, and may well get caught up in some celebratory traffic!
Just a couple of few pics in the slideshow.
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