Jeannine & I arrived Annecy at gite Bluffy 2pm unacked so by 3pm Don & I drove up to Plan Fait above Talliores to fly our first day! Don & I both climbed up to above Dents Lanfon in just 23 minutes & started accross the lake to Rocs de Boeufs where we immediately topped out to 6K altitude as we found our Maui friend Paul Smith thermalling with us! All 3 of us crossed the lake back to Col du Forclaz, Montmin launch & skied out to cloud base in minutes...
glided to Lanfonnet & without stopping headed back to our origin on Dents Lanfon in one hour flat from launching!
Then a short dash over to Mt Veyrier right to the corner of the lake above Annecy Ville & I crossed the lake again to Mt Semnoz, coming in a bit low & rushing to fast I only penetrated the ridge about 2 miles before dirting in a pasture next to the road. Don meanwhile dashed back to the Dents & crossed back to Rocs du Boeufs & was so high he glided straight back to land at Talliores LZ. Jeannine & Yolie were nice enough to abandond there beach walk to retrieve me. Big Bisou's for aiding me...
After a quick drive to launch to retrieve Dons car & watch the sun set in spectacular form in orange hues, Jeannine & I then spent a quiet peaceful evenning on the balcony of Gite Bluffy watching the moon rise over Plan Fait launch & looking up to the top of Dents Lanfon dreaming of tomorrows antics while having dinner with wine & cheese of course..
Till Tomorrow
Aloha from Mad Dog
PS: Any more whinning & we will ban JJJ from this blog & the peaceful country side of Bluffy
Thanks for the update, Awesome you found MauiPaul.
ReplyDeleteHope to hear more exploits of the Hawaii Monkeys in France. Great practice day, Ike sent me a pic of his track then after a conference call I got his story.
Make sure you guys contact Sylvain and Aurealia, they are super cool and a great contact for that area.
Oh, put your passports in your flight decks.....I have a feeling there will be some border crossings this year.
Thom see if U can put Ike's pics on the story I forgot my camera that day. much mahalo's
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