Seems like it was yesterday I looked at the snow outside, now it’s late summer, what happened?
Well.. Flyingwise it’s been a bleak season at home so far. We had our Nationals in Vågå as usual one week in July, I think these pictures tell the tale of the weather we had;
![Mountain waves, indication way to much wind for safe flying](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2072.jpg?resize=474%2C316)
![Lenticularis w/rotor cloud and a Swallow bird enjoying the unstable air](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2113.jpg?resize=474%2C316)
We did not fly a single task in the nationals, weatherdemons vs hanggliding – 8:0 The nationals ended on Saturday, and on Sunday it was flyable and taskable again… I took some pictures from flying in Bøverdalen that Sunday;
![Thomas](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2449.jpg?resize=400%2C600)
![Audun and Espen](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2243.jpg?resize=400%2C600)
![Speideren](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2352.jpg?resize=400%2C600)
![Erik Bergseter](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2371.jpg?resize=474%2C316)
![Matching colours!](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2384.jpg?resize=400%2C600)
The week after our nationals was my XC flying week this summer, but even though we got some good flying, the conditions were too stable for any real XC attempts. I did get to try out my new GoPro camera boom from Instinct Windsports, works great! A few examples from a late evening flight over Vågå (We took off at 19:00). So not a single good XC flight at home this summer so far, and it’s getting late into the season now.
After that week I headed back south to Elverum and Starmoen airport to run a beginner course in Hanggliding. The course went really well with 8 students, we had really nice weather most days, and flew 8 out of 9 days with really good progress and great students. It was a scootertowing course, and we did around 250 tows that week with great results. Some pictures; (Some images by Morten Heller and Frederic Bakken)
Workwise it’s been quite busy spring and summer, I did the next big Cisco certification – CCDE in April and May. (Which involved 3 trips to London in 3 weeks), then flew to Miami, had a week vacation on South Beach in Miami, and Long Island in the Bahamas, before heading up to Orlando for the yearly Cisco Live conference.
![At Cape Santa Maria, Long Beach, Bahamas.](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_1923.jpg?resize=474%2C316)
I also did a quick trip to the North of Norway, to meet family and also meet classmates from highschool 25 years ago, which was great fun! Weather was “interesting”;
![Northern summer weather](https://i0.wp.com/www.ellefsen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2023.jpg?resize=474%2C316)