| Flight details: | The forecast was RASPberry red all day -- I drove back from Gloucestershire for it. In fact, it soon became blue on one side and grey and wet on the other. In between, a few of us got away, of whom I think I timed it worst.
I went over the back in a climb with Ed Bewley. For a little while it seemed promising, though Ed disagreed and went back for another go (a good decision; he later got to Rottingdean). I reckoned that I was committed, but it never consolidated itself into something substantial.
I remembered Owen saying last week that the north-easterly ridge to the north-east of High and Over is an official flying site. Official or not, it kept me in the air and even gave me a bit more height. But I kept drifting; the next, smaller, north-easterly ridge didn't work.
Owen kindly came and picked me up from Sainsbury's. By the time I reached the M25 on the way home, it was thoroughly overcast and raining.
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