Yesterday I got fed up with working and seeing such great weather outside. Out with Dave and we had almost the whole range to ourselves. A bit tricky to get up at first - quite cyclic - then rough as anything over Colonna, but then got up to 2100m over Nudo (blown north) and rather than head north and not get back decided to go for Campo dei Fiori. Got there - just - below ridge height, -5m/s for the last km...
After crusing there a bit, up to 1950m with a sailplane, again getting blown back, then out over to between Sangiano and Cardana, back to Sasso where it was +2m/s in the ridge lift alone... out over the Laveno harbour to get down, 2h30 and a reasonable landing (lots of steps...). Didn't feel destroyed either: combination of air sick pills and the electric shock therapy seems to work well.
10:53:22 PM 
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