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Blogs by date posted
- 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
- Crossing the Richardson Range January 14, 2012
- Dart river vol biv January 1, 2012
- Central Oz road trip December 24, 2011
- The Great Dividing Range September 7, 2011
- Crossing the Pyrenees August 24, 2011
- Castejon de Sos, Spanish Pyrenees August 19, 2011
- To Ager, an xc site in the Spanish Pyrenees August 14, 2011
Tag Archives: Wanaka
New Zealand 2020
My 2020 trip to New Zealand was somewhat disastrous, after saving my new sub three kilogram Ozone Zeolite just for this (flying around an old rag in Oz), I brought the wrong wing by mistake. It certainly made a difference … Continue reading →
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New Zealand summer with Zalps
It’s been another amazing summer in New Zealand. Of course there has been plenty of “tramping weather”, but even a flight a week is well worth your while here. After some good flights before I arrived on 4 January, we … Continue reading →
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Dream flights in the Southern Alps
I arrived in late November to a rather frigid New Zealand. The icy winds howled around me as I crossed a snowy mountain pass to meet Chris Streat, to go off to battle headwinds with 5-20kt ground speeds – in … Continue reading →
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More on the end 2013 New Zealand trip
After putting together a quick summary of the first half of the New Zealand trip, doing the finishing touches in the early hours of the morning, it was off to Mt Alfred as the day looked promising despite the forecast … Continue reading →
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