Paragliding Scottish Nationals - Ochills Round
Written by Bob Veitch   
Saturday, 14 October 2006
Photos by Brian Steele
Ochils 11 seagulls circling universitysml Ochils 12 flypast monumentsml Ochils 09 Glide to wallace monumentsml Ochils 02 leaving bank hillsml Crater zone Ochils 13 lookback from landingsml lawers 04 grotty skysml Cloud over Dumyat Dumyat Ochils 03terry pre SAT at dollar academysml Ochils 03look back at bank hill and dollarsml Parawaiting on Myreton Ochils 10 Glide to wallace monument 2sml Back towards Menstrie Ochils 07 then onto dumyatsml Ochils 04 tillicoutrysml lawers3 kenny and mattsml Ochils 14 landing fieldsml lawers 2 mantra much fastersml Ochils 06 looking back towards tilli alva in foregroundsml Ochils 08 leaving dumyatsml Ochils 05 heading westsml lawers 01 naomi in lochsml approaching Dumyat
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Scottish Nationals Paragliding Series. The last round of this years competition was hosted by The Ochils Club on the 14th and 15th October 06. Day 1 - Saturday Myreton - near Menstrie.

Once everyone was up the hill, (most wings being carried up by the the one allowed 4*4) Tony briefed everyone comprehensively with an open distance task set. Tony also clearly reminded everyone of disallowed landing fields.

The conditions were however less than ideal with a bit too much East for the hills to be working at their best, however some people made it to near The Wallace Monument but I dont know who the task winner was yet. I do know however that Cliff, Brian and Zeno and one other person all went to a hill near Dollar and Brian at least did about 20km passing Myreton again and then also onto the monument - well done, this of course probably won`t count for the competition though :-(

In the evening Tina and Gordon were superb hosts to a group of 10, with lots of beer, food and great chat, followed by everyone "dossing" very comfortably down and to top that on Sunday morning- a perfect breakfast - Thankyou very much.
 
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