Blown Land

Those Spanish dude have so much style and mad talent.  Spain really looks like some sort of paraglider pilots dream.

Paragliding in Colombia - 5 reasons every paraglider pilot should consider visiting.

Beautiful people, relaxing beaches, delicious food, an emerging start-up community and relatively low costs makes Colombia a very desirable destination for any paragliding adventurer.

After looking at some of the photos of Colombian beaches a few months ago, I really had to ask myself, why am I living here in Salt Lake City (at the time) with very poor air quality and rather bland but nice culture.  There are a lot of good reasons to go to Salt Lake City especially for paragliding training and I will cover those in a future post.

These first 2 pictures are from Santa Marta Colombia region and look like a delightful place to swim in the ocean and fly paragliders.  This google map picture to the left looks like an ideal bowl to paraglide although I do not know if it is being used that way today.

The blog "Medellin Living" is a great resource for foreigners wanting to live in Colombia.  This article describes how Colombia is investing heavily in making the country more safe and incentives like start-up seed funding.  More of this article here.

This same blog also wrote an interesting story about the authors new found joy of paragliding and his second tandem flight with DragonFly Paragliding.  The launch in San Felix, Colombia looks well groomed with grass and DragonFly has it's operations very close by.  The complete article can be read here.

Perfect day paragliding with friends in Germany

Now this is a perfect day with friends if you are a paraglider pilot.  Appears to be in Germany and this is their web site http://www.dboemstroafer.com/


Silvesterflug 2013 from dBoemstroafer on Vimeo.

Grampa Ninja B&B Paragliding destination Costa Rica

This looks like a cool vacation destination and getaway for those of use in the northern climates that are getting pretty cold about now.

http://www.paraglidecostarica.com/index.html

North Side, Point of the Mountain, Utah, America's busiest paragliding flight park

Tandem paragliding Grandeur in Salt Lake City, Utah.

tandem paragliding with david boures from Flying Drifter - Paragliding on Vimeo.

november south side high winds fall 2021

me and former room mate taylor feeling the strong wind of late falls day south side 2012.  i'm thinking this is how base jumping began feeling the wing in your jacket and with enough air flow hmm.  also notice how the utah people don't really give a damn about the natural environment in the background.  they are hard working practical people yet the fact remains you can't easily re-grow a mountain.




it's nov 9th from Flying Drifter - Paragliding on Vimeo.