Although the wind was forecast to be S / SE and the RASP forecast showed wave, you had to be optimistic to set off from home in fog! Coming over the Chatton Moors there was a low bank of cloud with the snow dusted tops of Hedgehope and Cheviot visible beyond it and, further North a nice blue hole. By the time we were ready to launch there was obvious wave in the valley and behind Cheviot. It stayed there all day, although it moved and changed as the day went on.
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The view down the valley at the start of the day.
and this anvil of cloud, with the front edge visibly rising, at the end of the day.
Cloud rolling down into the valley behind Cheviot.
A sunlit Yeavering Bell
The wave worked to over 9500' and extended West of Jedburgh as well as providing several downwind bars.
A trip to Carter Bar, Yetholm, Coldstream and Etal
The Ka21, Alliance, K6e & LS4 all had soaring flights. Not a bad start to Milfield's 2018
