Bir - India 2005

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Rich Hardings photos of a trip he and a large number of other Avon pilots made to Bir in India during Autumn 2005

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The mazy road to launch - Rich Harding

Above the first ridge to the North-West of launch - Rich Harding

Judging by the glimpses of red, this is Staff, somewhere over the Red
Temple - Rich Harding

This actually looks like I'm in cloud - tbh not sure what happened to it - Rich Harding

As are red, Bs are blue, Cs are purple, Ds are green, Brakes are
yellow, Stabilo is red; the stabilo enables you to recover the glider if
it cravats (folds through its own lines); this can be very useful!) - Rich Harding

Dr Mike, AN Other, Martin, Thames Valley bloke who always insisted on
taking up the whole of launch for fifteen minutes while he minutely
inspected every single line (and hopefully doesn't know Lucy's
boyfriend, who is also a pilot), Staff, Mark, an Indian bloke, wife of
man who ran the Chai shop, Ken, Lucy - Rich Harding

Sanju,

Ian, Martin and Lucy (who has a boyfriend in London, allegedly - she
was at pains to point this out to every male under the age of 65,
including the Indians, and probably even Swiss pilot Patrice who she may
or may not have told her boyfriend about ;) - Rich Harding

Ian and Staff, one more awake than the other - Rich Harding

Chai shop - the taxi on the right with the black 'flag' belonged to

Ian, Mike, Martin (hidden), Staff wonder where the other taxi fell off
the 14km track (only 2.5km as the griffon vulture glides) to take off - Rich Harding

Chowgan (Bir Colony) with launch just right of centre - Rich Harding

Chowgan (Bir Colony) with landing field centre, just below middle - Rich Harding

On the way back to Bir - Rich Harding

At base, waiting for Lucy to find a thermal to cross back over the
valley at the start of the return leg - Rich Harding

Yellow firebird and Lucy Legget, last ridge before big crossing level
with Palampur; I was kind of coaching Lucy through the flight - Rich Harding

Definitely Martin - looks like we're close to Palampur now though;
think this was the following day and the following task then - out and
return to Palampur and then out to the front ridge and back; total about
60km - Rich Harding

I think I'm at about 10,000ft directly above take off, looking
back to the top of the ridge behind. The gliders are probably Martin
(red) and either John or Graham) - Rich Harding

Mark and Mike H on upper take off - Rich Harding

Top launch - the only person I know here is Graham, sitting looking at
his instruments beside my grey and red glider bag - Rich Harding

John Cardiff running reverse launch - you can see it's not exactly
rushing to inflate! - Rich Harding

Steeply terraced paddy fields, 2/3 of way to Mandi on the day we set a
friendly task to repeat my out and return of day 4 - Rich Harding

Ten seconds later! I think this is my favourite shot of the whole lot - Rich Harding

Land, pull brakes, take photo as glider falls to floor; got a great low
save from the low hill on the left the previous day - Rich Harding

Graham lands with lots of friends, between Palampur and Baijnath, about
10km short of completing the second 45km leg of our out and return to
Dharamshala - Rich Harding

Never needed more than Thinsulate gloves - shot is LH brake, speed bar
line, risers above carabiner - Rich Harding

Another long glide; carabiner LHS of shot - Rich Harding

Last big jump before Palampur on the way back from Dharamshala - Rich Harding

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