The day after my first flight in the alps the weather turned again. Sam spent the day playing with his glider while Carol, Sarah and I just bummed around. We checked out lake Chemesee which is not far from Skyline. That night we celebrated in a small Bravian town till 6am in the morning. It was just one of those nights that didn't finished.

The weather was still bad so we packed up and made our way to Austria to visit a friend of Carol's from Bright who is living there at the moment. We stopped off at Salzburg on the way.

It's a great little stopover. We only spent a couple of hours there but it was nice to wander around this great little town.


We pulled up to Schladming to a gorgeous evening and a few drinks from where we are staying. Does it get much better. The weather even started to fine up once we hit Austria. Maybe all the bad weather was in Germany.


The next day we planned to head up the hill for an early flight before the cloud settled in. It is quite unstable at the moment so there were danger of it over developing. But it had settled in by about 8am. We still headed up around lunchtime. Once again, we were the only hang glider pilots.


The lift was average but enough to get above the launch. It was still a nice 1/2 hour flight even though it wasn't the longest one. I settled into my glider a little bit more.


Everybody seemed to get a haircut at the end of the day. Sarah to took to Sam with a vengeance. He now has as much hair as me!


The car is continuing to give us troubles. As we pulled into Schladming the other day, there was a fairly loud noise coming from the engine. It's currently in the shop being looked at. We think it might be the water pump. Means we are holed up in Schladming for one more day. What a shame.