Here is a quick email just to say thank you for a great week in Tenancingo. Mike, Barry, John, Deryk, Steve and myself stayed in Casa del Piloto the first week of March. Great location for a base only a few hundred meters from the main LZ.
Bob and Dion showed us around the first day which was very helpful. We were briefed on La Malinche and El Picacho. Daniel Vallegas was very helpful to us the week we were there and provided a lot of good local flying information. Even though Daniel Pedraza spoke limited English and we spoke limited Spanish he was a friendly guy who always had a big smile on his face.
The flying during the week we were there was good but quite often the winds got to strong even for launching. After talking to both the Daniels it seems like December and January would be more mellow and consistent for paragliding in Tenancingo. Our experience was that March can the quite strong both in terms of winds and thermals.
After a few attempts we managed to get up from La Malinche and fly back to Las Insurgentes LZ next Gari's store. La Malinche is a great site with lots of potential but it is highly technical since it is only 300 meters above the deck and you have to get up 300 or 400 meters to make it back to the main LZ. It is with great satisfaction though when you do make the mini XC flight back to Tenancingo from La Malinche. We flew El Picacho twice and that site is more forgiving in terms of landing. The semi-desert views there are spectacular.
Tenancingo is the real authentic Mexico. We did not see a single tourist the week we were there. We quickly became "the gringos with back packs"
and the people were friendly and curious about us and the flying. The taxi system works great and is cheap. That's a perfect way to meet the locals as well.
That's it for now. Hopefully we get to fly Tenancingo again in the future.
A few pics from our trip are attached.
Hasta luego,
Greg
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