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After last night's party the morning was a bit rough. The sky just kept getting better, so up the hill we went. On launch I found a shad...

Yesterday was a little bit rained out in the same way that Britney Speaks is a little bit nuts. The rain was was biblical--BBC and I went ru...

This morning didn't look promising, but by about 1:00 things had cleared out enough to try a task. There was a big gaggle cluster immedi...

This morning the clouds were going overhead at speeds well above what a paraglider might hope to accomplish, but up the hill we went. This w...

The scene around the breakfast table this morning was grim; seven pilots and seven small containers of Vegemite, seven pieces of dry toast. ...

Today started off so well. Launched off the uncrowded east launch while the hordes pushed and shoved in line on the west launch, straight to...

Obviously Bill, Nicole and I need some incentive to stay in the air and go to goal. Today we had one of those "wow" moments and ca...

Flying in the Worlds Short report: A good task was had today, plenty of people in goal, and plenty just short. My view: We've had two ta...

The thunderstorms started boiling about 7:00 a.m., and the first light rain just drove us under the awning at 9:15. The forecast is for impr...

Despite the sprinkles in the morning and the general air of, "No way in hell we're going flying," all of a sudden we're up...

The Paragliding World Championships are underway, but we've yet to fly a task. People are starting to joke about the "Curse of Pinz...

After an insane week of flying, the best I've had in many years, the weather turned just in time for the first day of the World Champion...

We're heading up the hill in a minute for the first practice day of the worlds, but a few wrap-up thoughts: Our driver, Daniel, did a gr...

Yesterday was the last day of the comp. After flying seven of the last eight days I was pretty pounded--I've flown over 35 hours and mor...

Yesterday turned out way better than the morning clouds made it look--200K better. Super fun flight with a very technical section between ab...

Turns out I did better than I thought the last comp day, doing OK in this comp. Scoring here is a bit of a mess, the server system isn't...

I woke up and hit my head on a window sticking out of the trailer, then spilled some coffee and then forgot some stuff. In the air this patt...

Apparently Eva's wild ride in the sky made the news around the world. I was in the air that day, but choose to go land early. It's a...

I'm in Australia for two big paragliding competitions: The Manilla XC, which is a cross-country style competiton, and then the World Par...

Elbow tendinitis is one of those issues all serious climbers have to deal with sooner or later. I've done battle with it off and on for ...