Two week-ends in the sky.

Last two weeks have been nice even if the weather is still not at it's best. Saturday two week-ends ago I went to the jump called "Vuardes" with my flying mate Erwan. This jump is really nice. I like this place. Up there you have a really nice view on the Arve's valley and an awesome panorama on the mountains. The way to the exit is easy you can manage a couple of jumps in the morning if the winds isn't too strong. The exit it self is quite short, around 180 meters at the top of the trees down the cliff. You have to start to fly fast and on the fist time you jump this one it can be impressive. You have multiple lines to fly. The easiest if you fly straight to the valley or you can find some trickiest line if you fly on the left side of the cliff. You have some nice possibilities for proximity flight there. We made a two way with Erwan and I choose to buzz the trees on one of the left lines. It was a great jump ! After landing the wind got stronger and we had to forget our plans of a second jump.

Erwan jumping with style (Screen shot).

On Sunday, I went to Bex. There I joined David and Mathias to have some fun skydiving. We flew together and made some nice flights even if it was hard for me to follow them with their V4 and V5.

Skydiving with David and Mathias (Screen shot)

This week-end we could only jump on saturday. We were 4 wingsuit flyers heading for a jump at "Varan". The weather was cloudy and we didn't know how it was up there. The walk is not that hard and we meet on our way a beautiful group of ibex. When arrived at the top the weather conditions were quite bad. Julien who walked a bit faster than us was already geared up and jumped while we still could see the valley. Just after his jump the clouds came back. We had only one option left, waiting till the next hole in the clouds. It took a while and we were asking ourselves if we wanted to walk down when the sun came back. We got up and jumped quickly to avoid another hour if waiting. Varan is a huge jump, around 1900 meters. I decided to work on my glide ratio on this jump. I was really surprised once again of what I could get out of my old Ghost 2. 

Waiting time at Varan with Laurent and Erwan