Guided by : Carlo Borsattino with Steve Ham
Price & what's included
Price: £400 per person *TRIP NOW FULL*
This price includes the following:
- 1 week's thermalling and XC guidance trip with both Carlo Borsattino (Top Brit and 2nd Overall in the Piedrahita British Paragliding Open 2001) & Steve Ham (British Paragliding Champion 2002).
- Airport transfers from Madrid airport (on Sat 27th March and Sat 3rd April, 2004).
- B&B accommodation at Steve & Puri's.
- 4 dinners at Steve & Puri's.
Transport to take off.
- Air-conditioned Retrieve (along the days specified route).
- 'Site and in-flight' guidance with radios.
- XC tandem flights, if desired (and subject to availability).
If the weather doesn't cooperate, Steve and Puri will try to arrange alternative activities including white water rafting / kayaking, power-kiting, kitesurfing / windsurfing, and trips to Salamanca or Avila at no extra cost. Horse riding and skiing will also available, but at an extra cost.
Flights
We will be flying out of Gatwick (London) on Saturday the 27th March 2004 at 09:45 and arriving at Madrid at 13:10, where we will be picked up and transferred directly to our accommodation in Piedrahita. So, there should be ample time for a nice evening flight to 'acclimatize', ready for the week ahead! Our return flight from Madrid departs on Saturday the 3rd of April at 13:10, arriving Gatwick the same day at 14:35.
For more detailed info about the flying and locality in and around Piedrahita see flypiedrahita .com
Pilot Level
Club Pilot + 25 hours, with at least some experience of thermalling. Although the conditions at this time of year should be relatively gentle, this is a thermalling and cross country course so you will need to be able to launch and land yourself unsupervised, and fly safely in thermic conditions. If you are at all unsure if this course is suited to you, please contact us to discuss.
Photos
Carlo Borsattino
Snow and ice around Piedrahita take off, and the Catherdral at Salamanca...
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Mike Thomas
Sight-seeing, eating, coffee drinking, playing silly buggers on launch, rafting, kite buggying, and even some flying! Phew, we all needed a holiday after all that!
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Finn 'The Fearless' Kennedy
The group with frosty bushes, Steve 'Hillbilly' Ham, and Finn 'the Fearless' flies again!
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David & Alison Webb
Pictures from around launch, Salamanca, and Avila. Finn 'the Fearless' flies again, table football, white-water river-rafting, sight seeing, kite buggying, watching videos, eating at Steve and Puri's - a busy trip!
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Julian 'Jaz' Asbury
Jaz's ENORMOUS collection of photos from the Piedrahita trip. I hope you've got broadband...
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