Gravsports

Finally back home after the Sweden Ice Mines trip. It was insane, but thanks to a great team we did a fair amount of climbing, made an inter...

A few years ago I met some Swedes in Norway who told me about some amazing ice in abandoned mines in Sweden. It sounded cool, climbing ice ...

After years of access issues we finally have an opportunity to secure access to one of the best climbing areas in North America, Skaha Bluff...

The Worlds are done, some thanks: To all of those who bought 50/50 tickets, Columbia View Homes, Invico, Dave Urock, Vincene Muller, Amir, H...

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...