Hiking, high tides and tailwind takeoffs…
April had some good days.
Emmeline Lundström took the photo.
Nick Bisson took the photo.
May has not stod up to my expectations. To say the least. It’s been not soo fantastic…
But i have tried to squeeze the most out of it.
Hike and fly at any given chance, yesterday was no exception. Me and my good friends Lasse, Brett and Fredrik walked to the Olympia plateau, Lars Hedström drove us to Rödkullen. Since the windmeter on hummeln said southwesterly winds it should be perfect. It was lying. It was northwest to north. Hmmpff, well the sun was shining. We felt lucky to be out together having a reather good time. After catching our breath we got our kits out. Possitive thinking. 
Iphone pics.
Water along the hike… 
It was not at all easy to get the glider up and the short periods of westerly thermic activity was hard to spot in time to pull the glider of the ground and run off…
Fredrik tried 2 times, unsuccesfull. I tried 2 times unsuccesfull. We rested. The wind was bad. Very bad.
Brett and Lasse waited and checked me and Fredrik. Smart.
Then Fredrik tried again and somehow got of the hill and into the air! Some sort of timing pulling the glider up in the last of a thermic period and running off in zero wind and hucking off into abyss…
He glided of and caught a thermal. Climbed out and flew around while i was struggling on the takeoff. I tried 3-4 times then i gave up. The thermals was not helping to steer the wind direction to my advantage.
All i could do was pack up, while watching Fredrik having a good time in the air.
Me, Lasse and Brett walked down to Rödkullen where Fredrik picked us up with the minivan.
Fredrik was dancing the famous chickendance… I will practice more starts in crap wind.
Yesterday the Downteam Raft had escaped it’s leash. Anders Hedström got it back in custody.
Today the raft did a jailbreak again.
Me and Fredrik got it back with some help of Anders and Lars.
In the sunny evening me and Jonna enjoyed the last hours of sunshine sitting in chillchairs up in Björnen. Hera the dog came along. It was a good calm evening.
It’s already high water in lakes and rivers here and the authoritys are warning for extreme levels… Yihaa.
Whitewaterkayaking is on the menu soon…
The tiny whitewater spudboat was parked in our garden so we tried it out. Very comfy boat. Good footroom. But it would sink if i tried it on the river…
Tomorrow i start this summers first course of paragliding. Basic training for a week. I hope we get good weather.
Lars at the wheel.
