The Hammer and Kevin had a fantastic three days here in Tenancingo. We did an xc north 19 km on our first flight with altitude gains over over 4000 metres and Al had some moments where he got to almost 5200 m! Unheard of. On our second flight we flew across to the big statue of Christ and back to launch. Day 2 saw some more big elevation gains as we were joined by Brad and Christine. Brad skied out to over 4000 metres and quickly got a headache as his body was not used to the high altitude life yet. Kevin had a great flight in the late afternoon of day 2 after sinking like a rock off launch on La Malinche and found a bunny fart as he was on final and worked it eventually getting back to 3200 metres and flying almost to the town of Malinalco in sweet air. On day three we went out to El picacho launch near Malinalco where it was very strong. Al decided to give it a try and after pulling off a dynamic cobra launch he flew around for over a half hour in pretty rowdy air which was getting very rowdy on the ground. Eventually he landed in one of the top fields and had to jump on his wing to prevent it from relaunching! We took a four hour break and toured some magnificent Aztec ruins returning to launch at about 5 pm for what they call a restitution flight. Kevin hit the big one right off launch and went up to 3000m in smooth lift bobbing around for about a half hour while Al had to work with the rapidly calming air eventually flying out to fight a big headwind down into a field beside an orchard. Kevin top landed and the day was over as well our time in Tenancingo. Tomorrow we move over to meet our wives in Yelapa to sample some coastal air. One more note: On day one our friend and host, Daniel Miller landed after a big air flight in the regular LZ. Just as he dropped his wing he saw a huge dust devil approaching. Daniel grabbed his C-risers but the dusty lifted his wing up ripping it and then dragging him into a barb wire fence finishing off his wing! So if anyone has a line on a good used DHV 1-2 wing, Daniel would love to hear from you.
Finally huge thanks to Daniel Miller and Daniel Pedraza who drove us to and from launch four times and showed us muchos mexican culture. Wonderful gentlemen who we will look forward to seeing again! Thanks also to Brad, Bernie and Bob and Gerry for putting together a fantastic paradise place for pilots to bunk down after a big day in the air.
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