Gravsports

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Hips and Head, Cool Paragliding trip

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I'm on a "common sport themes" kick right now. I'm looking for a sort of unified feild theory for the physical side of spo...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

London

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In one of those, "Can you be here tomorrow" type situations I'm suddenly in London to work for a few days. I'm always a bi...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Golden Flying

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The flying in Golden has been really, really good. I wrote a little and posted some photos on Gravsports. I also figured out how to make a G...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Positive Power of Negative Thinking: No "Secret."

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With full credit to the old Bad Religion song, I've always found thinking negatively to be very positive--the positive power of positive...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Flow Sports

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It's been a while since I wrote anything on here, but I've been crazy busy with travel and a video edit, so I've been playing wh...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

The "P" scale

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I've been on the road near-constantly for the last two months (Oz and Sweden and then LA) plus a bunch of writing projects, slide shows ...
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Monday, April 02, 2007

Travels in Sweden

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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...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Searching for Ice in Sweden

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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 ...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Skaha

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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...
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And now for some thanks...

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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...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

The Secret to Success

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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...
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Going up the hill

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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...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

A day of it

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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...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

Blowing in the wind

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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...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Vegemite for breakfast, thunderstorms for lunch

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

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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...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

A new plan

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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...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

Worlds Task Two

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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...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

PG Worlds Day 5

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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...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Worlds Day One

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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...
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