Itford Hill Sat 1st July 2023

Today Scott and I met up at Itford Hill to try out the westerly that was being forecast.
In fact it was more like a WNW but that's fine at Itford.
On the way up the hill I noticed a lot of bright pink notices stating 'Bike Route' so I expected there to be some sort of cycling function going on and indeed there were hundreds of bikes coming along the South Downs Way on the 'Century' challenge - either 100k or 100 miles along the South Downs.

The bikes severely restricted our ability to fly and especially to land safely, so we kept our models to the North West face of the hill to avoid proximity to the bikes.
The weather was at times not enough to lift our light models and at other times too blustery to keep control, so although we both had quite a few flights, we felt a little hampered by the weather and the bikes. 
Scott flew his Ahi and I flew my Alula.

After 2.5 hours we retired to the cars, also beaten by the then wet and windy weather....

Rob