Skysurfers PG meeting at Bell

Had a good day at Bell today. I stopped off at Monkesdown and Winklebury on the way down convinced it was going to be more northerly.  Monkesdown was still so I walked across to the Winklebury bowl but it was light and only seemed just about flyable so it was back to the car. Richard had said earlier that he was on his way down to Bell.  He sent a Tweet as I was sat there wondering what to do saying it was flyable there and two were in the air. I only sorted the Twitter thing out this morning so result, I was off. As I got near I could see seven in the air, even better.  Simon V was there as well as Richard. One of the Wessex guys gave me a site brief, I haven't flown there for at least ten years. He had just got back from a short XC leaving the hill at just 500m ato. It was really smooth about 12mph NW and the lift went well out over the fields much better than I had expected. I landed later for some lunch but ended up having to change a tyre on my car. I had managed to get a puncture on the track up, welcome to Bell! It was totally flat the top parking is not the ideal place to jack your car up I can tell you. The afternoon was great fun scratching at times on the ridge but always flyable. Simon just used the lulls as an opportunity to show off his Wagga moves or try stacking on the top of Richards canopy as he ground handled. We finally gave up at around 5pm as it died off. A few of the Wessex guys thought that tomorrow was looking good so hopefully back in the morning.
Peter