. After an easy launch in a reasonable breeze we are hoisted straight to cloudbase on the mountains magic lift without having to do much more than 3 or 4 occasional 180s. The biggest disadvantage to flying here is that you are likely to forget how to thermal if you stay in the area too long as it just works everywhere. This kind of lift can be a sign in a normal big mountain environment, that things are on the way to becoming uncontrollable and if you need to make sure while you can, that you can still descend. Here however this is very normal and a few hundred meters from the mountain things are much more normal. We have a very enjoyable flight around the valley for an hour or two and she turns out to be a very game chica who is up for wingovers and spirals and screams for more. My favourite type of passenger. We land safely at beer o’clock and she has a flying face for the rest of the day. A little dazed, constantly smiling and apart from a thousand thank you’s not much else to say. I am very satisfied with this outcome and not allowed to buy a beer or food for the rest of the day. Lovely.