The wind didn't co-operate

We left here about 9:30am and took a collectivo taxi into town. We were lucky to get one with three empty seats at that hour. 

Then we had a 2.5 km hike up through town to the trailhead at Monte Alto State Park, and then another 2.5 km hike to the paragliding take off point.

The day started off sunny, but it didn't take long for clouds to move in.

On the trail.

Starting to get a view.

We walked through one section where there had been a fairly bad forest fire in 2018, but the new growth is doing really well.

This much cloud is not normal for this time of year.

A Mexican Jay.

Made it to the top.

The plan was that our paragliding team was going to meet us up there at 12:30pm. But there was zero wind up there, which is also not normal. So I sent our head pilot Raul a message, with a photo of the drooping wind sock.

He called me and suggested that we delay our flights until Friday or Saturday. There had been two other people take off while we were waiting, but unless conditions are good, it's not that safe to take off with no wind, and you get a very boring, short flight down to the landing spot. If we're going to do it, better to do it right!

So we'll try again on Friday, but we won't hike up... we'll take their passenger van up.

Another Mexican Jay.

So we sat up at the top and enjoyed the view for a few minutes, and then took a shorter more direct walk back into town on a trail we hadn't been on before. Then to a place for some yummy quesadillas for lunch, then back home. We walked about 10.5 kms, so got a good workout.

I wonder what caused this tree to fall over?

End of another day in Mexico.

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