We'll today we made another valiant effort to have a race but the weather again was quite difficult. The cumulus development started early and by the time we got up to launch things were really looking strong. Then a solid layer of high clouds moved in and shut down everything. Instead of waiting for the sun to come out and for things to start cycling again, they launched us and everyone was on the ground after the first glide out from launch.
It was pretty fun up on launch today because there was a herd of wild animals grazing right where we lay out our gliders and launch. Some of them were quite fascinated with our multi-colored paragliders and I think some of them were even having some shameless thoughts which I won't expand upon any further. It took quite an effort to get these wild animals to move away from our launch area...
Enjoyed some fun volleyball on the very nice sand court which they have at headquarters, and then drove back up the mountain to try and get in a late afternoon flight, but again, the weather didn't cooperate and the winds were blowing the wrong direction. On the way down we stopped at a very nice hillside restaurant and I had enjoyed a very good pizza and some refreshment.
Tomorrow the weather is looking better so we are all hoping that we might get to have a fun race day... we will see!
I believe Sue is on her way to London now and hopeful will find her way to Slovenia tomorrow sometime.... There are many beautiful hikes to do and plenty of adventures to be experienced in this beautiful, very friendly place.
One of the pictures is of a huge gun mount which was kept as a monument to when the Germans came into the area and completely wiped out the local population.
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