A short description of the flying area
The small market town of Piedrahita is situated at 1000m MSL 185 km from Madrid international airport, about 2 hrs. driving time.
The main take off Pena Negra at 1900m faces NW and is reached by a good paved road. Pena Negra can be used in 95% of the flying days. The first thermals are working around 11am in the valley. Piedrahita is an ideal place to reach the convergence line, that sets up in centre of the Spanish peninsula in front of the Sierras (see map below). It can extend for more than 300km with cloud bases above 4000m.
The main flying route takes you to the historic town of Avila and further on along the N110 highway.
Site records have been flown by Steve Ham 244km on 04 July 2004 and 280km by Patrice Quillet on 15 August 2004.
Another Piedrahita Special is the flying with storks in the same thermal - amazing pilots these guys.
If you are looking to join a retrieve team for the 2009 Piedrahita XC-Open
use paragliging forum thread contacts:

Howto find retrieve team
* use this thread to find retrieve team members for the 2009 Piedrahita XC-Open from Aug 30 - Sept 06.
* contact Steve Ham at flypiedrahita.com for a retrieve driver. Steve will have several retrieve drivers available again.

Useful additional infos
* Have a look at this video about the Piedrahita XC-Open 2007 by the Alpsfreeride Team (8min 70MB)
* Piedrahita on Google maps
* 2009 Piedrahita Pilot registration list