“At 1,800m I was just below the top of the ridge heading south towards a large rocky bowl that was clearly working well,” writes Bruce Goldsmith in issue 148 of Cross Country.
“There had been a beautifully formed cumulus cloud sat right above the top of the bowl for the last quarter of an hour, and it was clearly regenerating itself from the sunny bowl below.
“This is going to be good, I was thinking to myself as I started to get that feeling of being sucked in towards the thermal with the climb out in front.”
But where was the core? “It just felt difficult and awkward.”
Bruce is a former paragliding world champion and his Icaristics column in Cross Country is a legendary source of information and inspiration.
In Cross Country 148 he discusses which way to turn – something we think about in every thermal each time we fly.
His practical experience of how thermals behave backed up by solid theory is invaluable. You don’t have to be a world champion to know which way to turn, but it helps.
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