once upon a time in mexico

30 hours, 3 airports, 1 flat tyre and no sleeps and we´re at valle! and awoke to the consistently superb conditions we´ve all heard about. it´s wierd to fly a site where you don´t bother about the weather, just assume it´s all good and kickass thermic conditions because it always is. we all had a nice 40km triangle around the main local peaks on tuesday followed by $1 beers and $1 tacos in the lakeside LZ, life is good. in essence valle is very much like bright, on a lake, with the whole thing jacked up 1000m, the valleys are at 1500m, tops at 2500-2700 or so and bases have been about 3500m, so altho the number is reasonable it´s very technical, low to the ground flying. as always at a worlds everyone is scoping out the new ships, it´s a bit of a changing of the guard tho, niviuk icepeaks are everywhere and kicking it, ozone R09´s are reasonable common place and keepin up well, boomerang 6´s look sharp but are fairly rare, the advance boys are flying old protos, and mercuries and magus´s are pretty much unheard of, what a change from manilla. a lot of the old faces are on new makes. but in such strong and consistent conditions, speed and lines will be of the essence and this will be a race of races. ok taco time, i´ll try and upload some more photo´s shortly. cheers, g