Posted By: barnacle
Yes, we are at home to Mr Epic... - 05/05/2013 20:47
Just got back from a week paragliding in Algodonales - flew five days out of seven on site including one day that dumped four inches of snow...
Highlights - which probably won't make sense except to other fliers - included:
- soaring a ridge at the coast, and soaring another ridge inland and ending with a cross-country jaunt
- stepping off the mountain and straight into a 5 m/s thermal (a thousand feet a minute) straight up to within a couple of hundred feet of cloudbase, fifteen hundred feet above the summit
- a late recovery from fifty feet above the landing field and a two thousand plus foot climb in lazy and difficult thermals - coming down only really because my arms were too tired to keep precise control on the brake lines.
And of course the usual selection of bimbling around a few thousand feet above the ground.
Rather annoyingly my new camera died the day I got there so I have to rely on others to provide pictures; none posted yet.
Highlights - which probably won't make sense except to other fliers - included:
- soaring a ridge at the coast, and soaring another ridge inland and ending with a cross-country jaunt
- stepping off the mountain and straight into a 5 m/s thermal (a thousand feet a minute) straight up to within a couple of hundred feet of cloudbase, fifteen hundred feet above the summit
- a late recovery from fifty feet above the landing field and a two thousand plus foot climb in lazy and difficult thermals - coming down only really because my arms were too tired to keep precise control on the brake lines.
And of course the usual selection of bimbling around a few thousand feet above the ground.
Rather annoyingly my new camera died the day I got there so I have to rely on others to provide pictures; none posted yet.
