Winfried Oswald <<email>> writes:

Regarding fly at Laragne, in one week, I got six flying days in a row with more than two hours thermal soaring on average. Others were doing 200 km triangles. The only grounded day was with some nasty cold turbulent northerly wind blowing down from the Mt. Blanc Alps, locally called "Mistral". That day however the air was unusually clear and bright.

I have taken some landscape snapshops from the launch area, that are published here http://www.abschweb.de/fleunde/windfried/chabre.htm (Sorry, text is in German.)

You can see the bomb out zones on the images: Top image (View to Northeast), the northerly dropout zone is in the river valley to the lower right. Lowest picture (SSO view), the southern dropout zone is the apparently green patch in the woods, lower right margin of the image. It is a good idea to consider knee protectors, as those two landing fields are stony. The landing place besides the camping in Laragne is of golf course quality.