Let's see if it works

Waiting sky to clear, nice lifts ahead.

"maybe" it is lifting already

Soon Jouni will be on his way to zermat

Waiting to base to rise in the nice thermal breece. Very happy about

yesterday!

After stripping my own glider off lines and using logo sticker for patches

after rip stop ran out jounis glider is back on business. Special thanx to

Taina, Juha and team austrian fans for giving hand and highly valuaded

ripstop!

This morning: total of 8 holes, at least 4 a lines broke plus some b's and

stabilos. Running out of ripstop tape and fixing wing with logos and duck

tape. Taking lines off my own wing. Jouni is ok though, he ripped the wing

trying hefty launch last ewening. Now he is using back up wing wich is not

guite as fast as this one.

After (mentally) hard day last steps

We were on the area where was no cell reception and jounis gps is broken

soon I'll get him a new one

Time to eat and rest

Toplanded on the way to first turnpoint dachstain which glasier can be seen

in the picture. Tomorrow it all then begins.

On last day Jouni did one more training/test flight and took picture whilst

landing in Fuschl am see. In picture RB hq

Going inside the cave.

When not flyable it's nice to go inside the mountains for a change. Some cave in France. On the floor there was really cool looking stone formations like living coral.

Altough pictures are from the previous trip we are back to alps. Today traveling to Salxburg and tomorrow starting registration.

To our surprice our van was intact in Geneve airport, we left it in the hurry in the just some parkinglot because we could not find long term parking for such a high vehicle. after 3 weeks it was not stolen, broken into, wandalized or towed away. You gotta love Switzerland.

"Makkosfactor" hits in. At the Airport Jouni remembers something crusal, car keys were...

In Trento we visited Woody Walley factory to get my new X-Alps harnes. Now i have been flying with it a few 100+ km flights and has to say it's great! With it and my new Gradient XC3 glider i suppose i will be more than ready to do loooong flights :)

Just landed on the snow ridges Macugnaga side(Monte Rosa on the back ground) to walk over the pass to fly in Zermat. What a great day:)

Just landed in Italia after coming from Tre Cima turn point. On the left corner you can see dark area which i just barely escaped. It was hailing guite painfully in my face when flying full speed under it.

Hiking (71km) in Finland in perfect weather.

And tree ours later it was snowing like hell. Winter and spring fighting together?

First thermals in Finland usually start to kick in end of march. On the backround is my hometown Lahti and lake Vesijärvi is still covered with thick ice.

Flying mid winter in deep snow North part of Finland. Sun is not going up but you can always look for reindeers.

Altough it has been dark and cold in Finland, training has started for Finnish team. Jouni has been training flying both locally as well as abroad and doing daily training hikes.

Clear cold skyes gave us inspiration for nice photos during fullmoon night in Finland. (photos Toni juopperi)