Getting out of trouble
Many years ago I did a flight in the southern french Alps, with an instructor, landing at a few airfields like Barcelonette.
You know how pragmatic the french can be..... He tried to climb close to a ridge but there was a downdraft. He simply said: If we have a downdraft here, there will be an updraft at the other side of the valley, and there was!
It is something that always stuck in my mind regarding valley flying as a potential escape: If there 's a downdraft one side, there must be an updraft on the other side!