Monarca paragliding open T1

Hola la and first task of Monarca paragliding open PrePWC is behind us. It was quite tough day and long task for this kind of conditions. I made it luckily second today 13 minutes behind Penso. I must say I was prety happy couse I almost landed two times on the way and at half of the race I had 40 gliders in front.

It started from Penon with start gate 5km over Piano (landing in front of take off) with waiting over Crazy thermal and Gspot. At take off a LOT of wind and pilots had trouble taking off. First point was antenas at Divisadero. I was ushing in front with Penso and mad 1st tp fist and Penso behind. After that going back for me was bad and I stuck 15 minutes over Maguey and I saw whole bunch of pilots flying over me to Cerro Gordo. After a while I got something to jump to Cerro but I got there very low and almost bombed out. Again scratching and nothing and than I went away in lee towards Valle. I got to Casa Vieja very low and I saw pilots allready at next tp at Saucos (they stuck there). I found a group and we made it over valley to Saucos very high so we cought pilots in front which were scratching low and landing. Way back was tough with 35 km wind but we got some nice climbs to make last TP La Casa. I went first from the group as I saw that I can make it (my LK8000 worked perfecty) and pushed bar a lot. I escaped my group and came to goal to Torre very high and landed in Valle. It was turbulent and few pilots ended in the trees :-(.

Results will soon be at www.monarcaparaglidingopen.com