Gary Wirdhan been having great flights here and got this shot of Mart's glider shortly before Mart recovered it:

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I spoke again with Mart. He says that his launch was fine, but he shouldn't have launched at all. All three flags showed the breeze coming straight in at Mart's northwest facing launch, the launch at the top. But it had been blowing west for quite a while. And it was late, way past 2 PM, the cutoff for launching at Laragne-Chabre (I launched on that same launch at 2:10 PM).

Mart ran off in what looked like good launch conditions as far as the folks at launch could tell, but he ran the full length down the launch area and the glider didn't start flying. At the end of the twenty meter run one wing, likely his left one, hit a bush and he spun down a cliff into the trees. Just a little above where you see the glider now. Mart moved the glider a bit further down out of the trees into a "clear" area after "landing."

The glider is pretty much totaled. Broken cross bars (carbon fiber). Broken leading edges. Broken and bent pip pins in the control frame.

Mart feels that the west component of the prevailing wind was still there and wasn't indicated by the flags, but was indicated by the time of day and the previous conditions before he ran. He shouldn't have launched.