Day 6 saw me swapping places with the Croatian as I hiked and flew west along the Inn river into Switzerland. Starting in the lead, waiting for morning low cloud, mistiming my flight before sunshine, and catching him again with a long evening glide.
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Blogs by date posted
- Getting a gliding license September 7, 2023
- Beechmont – world class flying site at risk? May 10, 2023
- Spinal cord injury July 15, 2022
- More gliding in Oz December 20, 2021
- Summer in Europe September 23, 2021
- Red Bull X-Alps – would you do it again? July 28, 2021
- Brisbane lockdown March 11, 2021
- New Zealand 2020 April 1, 2020
- Paragliding in Pakistan October 13, 2019
- Winter in Brisbane September 1, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 12 July 19, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 11 July 18, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 10 July 17, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 9 July 16, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 8 July 15, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 7 July 14, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 6 July 13, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 5 July 12, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 4 July 11, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 3 July 10, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 2 July 9, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 day 1 July 8, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 preweek July 7, 2019
- Red Bull X-Alps 2019 route June 1, 2019
- Spring in New Zealand November 16, 2018
- USA road trip November 15, 2018
- Vol biv hitch in Canada November 12, 2018
- Paragliding adventures in China June 16, 2018
- New Zealand summer with Zalps March 6, 2018
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 10 France December 12, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 9 Matterhorn November 5, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 8 Italian lakes October 12, 2017
- Southeast Queensland and the NSW border ranges September 24, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 7 northern sojourn September 14, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 6 Garda September 11, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 5 To Italy September 1, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 4 Zugspitze August 12, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 3 Aschau August 5, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 2 Triglav August 2, 2017
- Red Bull X-Alps 2017 – Episode 1 early days July 29, 2017
- X-Alps 2017 route May 13, 2017
- Choosing a new wing March 20, 2017
- New Zealand multisport February 25, 2017
- Last week of 2016 in New Zealand January 3, 2017
- No train no pain November 20, 2016
- Bali paragliding from Mt Agung July 25, 2016
- Meteorology unit 1 May 29, 2016
- New Zealand paragliding record, continued January 7, 2016
- Vol biv in South America November 19, 2015
- Xalps 2015 race diary – part 3 August 11, 2015
- Xalps 2015 race diary – part 2 August 7, 2015
- Xalps 2015 race diary – part 1 August 6, 2015
- A few flights in Eastern Europe August 4, 2015
- Vol biv in the Indian Himalaya April 19, 2015
- Going for the big one March 17, 2015
- X-Alps New Zealand style February 17, 2015
- Dream flights in the Southern Alps January 27, 2015
- Record triangle in New Zealand – Roys Peak January 2, 2015
- Ala Archa vol biv in Kyrgyzstan Tien Shan December 29, 2014
- An awful August in the Alps September 5, 2014
- X-pyr – the race across the Pyrenees July 28, 2014
- Pyrenees reconnaissance for X-pyr July 6, 2014
- Flying Mestia, Svaneti, in the high Georgian Caucasus June 4, 2014
- Flying over Lagodekhi in Georgia’s northeast May 26, 2014
- X-berg, X-pyr, ex-lovers May 20, 2014
- Flying Kazbegi in Georgia’s Caucasus May 18, 2014
- Northern French Alps best day of the week May 14, 2014
- Flying in Corsica, an anecdotal analysis May 4, 2014
- A short vol biv in Nice May 1, 2014
- Spring vol biv in the southern French Alps April 14, 2014
- X-berg vol biv across Africa’s Drakensberg mountains April 2, 2014
- More on the end 2013 New Zealand trip January 1, 2014
- Back to New Zealand December 21, 2013
- New adventures June 30, 2012
- A flying foray into Fiordland March 4, 2012
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Flying paragliders in the mountains 