Thursday 25.05.06
    The fifth day of the competiton looks inclemently and a thick fog lies all around. It seems the next usual unflyable day is coming again. But the fog melts gradually and first buses depart with pilots towards the taking off area at 9 a.m. The temperature dropped noticeably after the front passing over and a fresh snow lies on slopes of higher mountains now.

    Organiser declares 106 kilometers long task at the briefing today. It spans two turning points and its goal is located near Seeboden headquarters. The starting window is open at half past noon and its length is 90 minutes.

    Rising up looks very difficult at first. The valley is cold after several rainy days and lifts arise rather from slopes in higher locations above the taking off point. Unfortunately, 23 of pilots can't even reach the minimum distance of 30 kilometers. Anders Baerheim even tears his canopy by branches of a tree on the 14th kilometer of the route.

    Not a single one pilot reaches the 70th kilometer and therefore the goal remains completely unpeopled today. French pilot Gregory Blondeau flies the furthest (67.4km) and he becomes the winner of today's task, leaving Kaoru Ogisawa form Japan and Czech Martin Orlik 700 meters behind and Paolo Zimmarchi from Italy next one kilometer behind them.

    Ewa Wisnierska wins the Woman category (51km), leaving Swiss girls Karin Appenzeller (42.4km) and Eliane Ueltschi (33.7km) behind.

    After five days of the race we can count the first results at last, although meteorologists can't exclude that these results can be the last ones.