I wasn’t planning on flying on the day, but due to a last minute change of plan I ended up heading to Wallberg to attempt the classic Wallberg-Kössen xc route, with a slightly unclear forecast due to the amount of wind.
It took a while for the day to get started, so we sat and watched some fairly chaotic scenes at the take off as the main take off was closed and it was quite windy for beginners. Eventually people seemed to be climbing away so I decided to start and eventually managed to climb high enough above Wallberg to make the first transition, but not as high as I would have liked to be.
After this transition I arrived very low to the ridge and there was very weak lift which didn’t go very high, I sat around in this for a while to try and catch a good cycle, and eventually this happened which resulted me climbing through the inversion and then I was properly on my way. From this point onwards the flying was much easier and with only a few more climbs I arrived at the Unterberghorn above Kössen, my goal.
As the journey back from Kössen with public transport is very time consuming, and it was too early to get a lift back with another pilot, I decided to head north back into Bavaria and see where I could fly to. I ended up managing to fly north to land at Obersee right next to a train station which made the journey back much easier, it is just a shame that I missed the train by 30 seconds and then had to wait for an hour!
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