Great flight from Talybont during the BCC. Light winds and good thermals starting out meant little drift during climbs and committed glides in between. Climbs appeared in expected places, above peaks and ridges. Following the Black mountains up meant we could cover distances with gaggles marking climbs at each point.

My main take away from the day was to remember the forecast! We knew a cold air mass was arriving from the NW at some point and expected some potential convergence to ride in E/NE. I believe I experienced this for a while with a good line of constant lift just on the east side of a line of clouds. However, as I could not see any drop in cloud base to the W or any other signs (that I knew to look for) I blindly shifted path NW beyond the clouds toward sunshine and brown fields, hoping for climbs and finding only sink out. Pilots that made the best of the day appeared to end up much further east of my heading so I assume stayed on the right side of this. Or maybe I was unlucky! Time to review the other pilots tracklogs for the day…