Just to let you know I am posting to the largely disused pargliding forum on Ellis and my trip. Here's today's post:
Yesterday Thursday 19 February was an 8-hour drive from near Christchurch SW across the Canturbury plain to Wanaka in the mountain lake district. Got a nice photos of "fourteeners" Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman across a lake. As the day before, we drove out of overcast into blue skies and sunshine (broke out shorts and t-shirt for the first time), but rain started last night and promises to hang around a couple of days. Looks like a wine-tasting day. Theory class for the SIV course ("simulation d'incident en vol") is tomorrow in Queenstown. Been reading the USHPA mag article on the three types of malfunction: stalls, spins and collapses... We plan to stay in Arrowtown, a few miles north, to avoid crowds - it's an old gold-mining town - looks like a Western movie set - there's a backpacker hostel run by a pilot and it's the closest town to Coronet Peak and Treble Cone flying sites. I've broken the back of my cold, but Ellis still has a wicked sore throat. - Hugh
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