Sunday, August 10, 2008

Retrieval after a fligt below expectation at Gresse en Vercors

We were super motivated for a long flight from Gresse en Vercors: a sledder for everyone .

But it was defeneatly worth it as the site is just beautiful and the short walk to the take off refreshing. This is a great site to start cross country toward Grenoble. We had great plans to link to Saint Hilaire, but the thermals just did not show up. We went to retreive the team in various locations including this field on the side of the N75, and a private alti airport with a colorful character owning it.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Day 3: Super cross in Annecy



To be edited

Poor maria

She twisted her knee at the take off. But the mood is good.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Day 2: Annecy and Marlenz

At the take off in marlenz



Thanks to Tadej who took great pictures :-)



Second day in Annecy.



The MRAT Fan Club T-shirt is becoming the most popular uniform around.




As it can be seen on the following picture and completely not intended by the designer, it fits especially well the female forms ...







We are increasing the number of fans to the support mrat club. Go nova! Go!




Today we flew in Marlenz. Only Tadej managed to extract himself from the site and go to Ugine. The rest of us flew local and landed at the official atterro next to Partick Berod's Gites.






Sunday, August 3, 2008

Day 1: Travel and Annecy

The tonality of the diet for the trip is a given : it will be Cheese !

We walked up at 4am to travel fresh. At 6h30 on the highway, Arnel and arturo are enjoying a Camembert with a spoon ! Welcome to France, buds.

We are now in Annecy. Where we join Hannoteau family and Michele and Rod.

Rod at the first take off : Unsuccessful Launch :-)

Few snap shots of the day.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Day -1 : Preparing the stuff ... August 1st

Day -1
We are in the south suburb of Paris. tomorow morning, Arnel, Arturo and Erik are arriving at the different airports of Paris. We will spend the afternoon in the city. Finalizing the packing, having dinner in Paris, visiting the Eiffel Tower and going to bed early !! Sunday morning we will have a very early start ! 3.am ! .. no 4 am .. maybe :-)

Could not find the IR interface on that computer, thus no transfert of pictures for this time. I'll do that via cable during the trip ...

Arnel is making the experience of Jetlag ...