Picture of the Week - Practise for Paragliding

 

Practise for Paragliding

As mentioned in a previous post Mount Cheam is a favourite spot for the sport of paragliding and it is not uncommon to see up to 40 sails up in the air at one time.  Friday, in preparation for the afternoon flight members of the Deimos Paragliding Club were checking out their equipment and reacquainting themselves with liftoff – to state the obvious - it is too late once you jumped.

Paraglider Wally Geissbuehler, featured in these pictures, told me that an incredible lifting action comes off Mount Cheam, in fact, last year he was up for over 7 hours in a single jump. Unfortunately, in 2009 he also crashed, finding himself 100’ up a tree on a steep slope without a “tree kit”. The good news is that the Kent Harrison Search and Rescue Team did come to the rescue and that Wally was good enough recently to send a donation their way.  That story was recently published by the Agassiz Harrison Observer.

Imagine the rush of jumping off a cliff for the first time!  As close as you can come to flying without being a bird. There is a nice photo gallery at the Deimos Website that captures their flying.

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