2025-08-06 - Nordic Open - Krusevo - Task 1 - Gravity Attack

Nordic Open - Krusevo - Task 1
After 2 days of bad weather today was rhetorical first day for a potential working task.
NE wind predicted, with water on the ground in the valley and colder than usual, we were warned that the flats might not work very early or might not work at all.
Again the plan I listened from the master emphasized working the mountain and get the maximum altitude and use the shortest cross over the valley to tag the east turnpoints.
I took a good start, I checked a little comparatively my glide and it seems that the Exoceat is not really handicapping me, at least in smooth air, and then I decided, against good judgement and advise to cross diagonally over the flats towards a beautiful looking cloud.
That was checkmate even before the game really started.
Well… I still put a fight but it was a bit disheartening as I knew that, with strong winds and 500m below there wasn’t anything I could do to fix it.
So, it took one more mistake to seal my fate, low and with strong drift, at some point I met a high power line and decided that I will switch to ground based adventures.
In the next days the wind is forecasted to be stronger, fingers crossed for some magic to get some more lift.
2025-08-06