Raul Guerra <<dr.raulguerra>>
writes:

Here is the history and video link at national TV interviews of
cross country Ecuador.

http://youtu.be/jU2QTDYIhmI

After extensive work in the smile of our friend Jonny Durand, we went to fly at
Bototillo Ecuador, my place of flight. Jonny with his experience realizes the
convergence line and we went together for this new route with few landing
places. Jonny flies 90.8 Km breaking the record for distance in Ecuador.

Jonny departed to Arizona USA to the SCFR, and I kept the memories of this
magnificent flight, eager for more. So I decided to try to break Jonny's record,
just nine days after we flew. For this purpose I prepared and decided to travel
the route by car one day before my flight.

I discover a new pavement road that takes me to find amazing LZ with old trees
and beautiful scenarios, this encourages me to tell myself “tomorrow I will land
between these centenary trees as the place is magical”.

That's how the day Saturday September 14th, I decided my goal is to land at this
WP “The Trees” and it's like after 3 hours of flight I pass by the place where
Jonny landed, area very uneven and hilly with few or no places to land.

Since I had already recognized this area the day before I knew I had to go up a
bit more to cross the next ridge into the next valley.

At this moment my GPS indicated me that I could reach at WP The Trees, but to go
to this WP I had to cross a hill that was in the middle of my way.

Once I crossed that hill I discovered the last thermal smooth, that gave me the
height enough to reach my Goal.

Thanks to all my friends and pilots who have flown this route with me since
2004, helping and showing me a better way to do it: Betinho Smith, Dustin
Martin, Kraig Coomber, Mike Glennon, 2 Jeff's, Davis Straub, Jonny Durand, are
some of my cross country friends who have flown in the area.