Sun Valley Idaho PWC

[mingram]

This big air comp started Sunday. The smart pilots are flying with oxygen. The open distance nationals start next week. Today's task was cancelled today due to virga and hail (graupel).

http://flyfarinidaho.com/
https://twitter.com/flyfarinidaho

Andy Macrae's Blog
http://www.bozemanparagliding.com/blog/

Brett Hazlett's blog
http://www.flyingthevoid.blogspot.ca/
"Despite finding a huge grassy area out in the open, it was full combat all the way to the ground. I was flying backwards in regular gusts and using most of my tricks to keep my glider open.

There seems to be a weakness in our competition paradigm for situations like this. Quite often a stopped task still results in one hundred pilots finding themselves flying in unsafe conditions. Unsafe to be in the air and equally unsafe to be trying to land. I have no idea was a practical solution to this would look like, but it would be a worthy discussion."

[mingram]

193km race to goal yesterday!

This blog post by a Brit Craig Morgan describes the flight. He talks of Coyotes and Grizzly Bears and the beauty of the west and wishes Britain hadn't given up on Colonization.
http://www.xcmag.com/2012/08/paraglidin ... e-to-goal/

[Brit_in_SoMD]

"...I was flying backwards in regular gusts and using most of my tricks to keep my glider open..."

Yeugh.
Sounds like it was a time to be on the ground, not flying...
Based on my limited flying experience and my one trip (so far) to Idaho (King Mtn HG comp, 2009), I'd not fancy flying my PG there during the middle of the day - early or late was just fine, though.

If it's big distances they want to fly but without all the drama, then they need to be in Texas... (see the other post i'm about to make...)

[mingram]

Cool vid from Brett Hazlett