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Wir fahren so hoch am Stelserberg wie möglich und wandern noch 15 Minuten zur Alp beim See, damit wir trotz Schatten eine Chance haben zu steigen. Task: Fanas Hörnli - Davos - Fanas Hörnli - Goal in Schiers. Um Punkt 12 ist es dann so weit - und in der Tat, es steigt schon bei wenig Sonne. In Davos ist alle im Schatten, die Konvergenz lässt aber viele wieder Steigen. Der Rückweg ist dann spannend, aber ok. Anders Baerheim Jörg Ewald Thomas Koster Markus Wicki David Rossi Joël Debons Sind im Goal Um 15:10 wird der Task gestoppt, weil die Wolken bei Klosters zu gross werden und auch im Radar zu sehen sind. Nanda Walliser ist mit 48 km weiteste Frau. Die Flugfotos sind von Dominik Frei. Mehr Fotos findest du hier: www.azoom.ch/fotos/suchergebnisse.php?shooting_no=558&page=2

The weather is too good to make a normal 90km-race or something - we decide to go for the Koster-Triangle: Fergenhütte (behind Klosters) - Disentis - Landing at Walenstadt. End of speed section of 10km would allow to make hight before goal to allow to finish the triangle (Walenstadt is only 2 from the 3 legs). The conditions are fantastic, but cloud base lower as we though (3000m instead of 3500m in the weather reports). And in the Glarnerland the conditions where pretty stable - all in goal are tired and happy to be here. Steph Morgenthaler arrives goal around 16:50 (33km/hour). 17:20 Joël Debon, Micha Witschi and Petsch Neuenschwander arrive at goal. 17:40 Urs Schönauer and Anders Baerheim, later Michael Maurer and Jörg Ewald and finally Micha Sigel. At 18:15 Thomas Koster flies high over Walenstadt and tries to finish the triangle.

Meeting point: Saturday, 9:45 at Hotel Alpina (Headquarter, Parking and Departure below the Hotel). Infos: Sunday we expect more humidity from west. The prognoses would allow task-flying in the areas "east of Bern" or in the Wallis. But in Wallis we fly all summer.... In the area Interlaken we have only Amisbühl, because all cable cars are closed. East of Switzerland seems to be the best. Fanas allows interesting tasks. We organized busses directly from Hotel Alpina to the take off. The landing and the headquarter is at hotel Alpina as well. New Info: The Car-Drivers can bring us to the Flight Area Vaduz as well (if Stelserberg is cloudy, Vaduz is better). - Location on map.search.ch- Location on maps.google.ch