EXPERT: How to Avoid a Storm
A little shared knowledge of storm avoidance if you’re wandering around by sea or air, as featured on the Red Bull Adventure Channel. Check it out!
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The Red Bull EDIT!
The Red Bull Media House has just done their own edit of the 500 Miles to Nowhere Expedition! Check it out!
Read More...Confessions of an XC Addict- Ushpa Cover and Feature hit the stands!
The January 2014 issue of United States Paragliding and Hangliding magazine just got delivered! Yet another one of Jody MacDonald’s amazing shots gets the cover, from back in 2010 in Mozambique, and there’s a fun feature article by yours truly in the mag on my little addiction that is human flight. Hope you enjoy!
Read More...The 5 most memorable flights of 2013- Red Bull Adventure
Flying his Niviuk Peak3, Gavin McClurg battled his way across Idaho from Mt Baldy, 387km into Montana, committing to some of the deepest, remote solo flying and turbulent lee-side conditions, to comprehensively break the US foot launch distance record.
McClurg had landed just short of the Idaho state record the day before, and had only had a few hours’ sleep that night. It came in a week where the cross-country ace clocked up almost 1,000km in the air.
Read More...An amazing year. A look back at 2013
My mom writes a Christmas letter every year and always asks my sister and I to write a paragraph of what we did. For the last 13 years mine has been a discourse on wherever the boat had gone that year. Caribbean, South Pacific, Melanesia, Australasia, Africa, etc. Needless to say, it hasn’t been very dull. As I started writing this years recap I fully expected a somewhat more toned-down account.
Read More...Confessions of an XC Hound- Cross Country Feature
500 Miles to Nowhere goes LIVE on Outside Television!
The Higher You Get makes the GoPro video of the Day!
GoPro has just selected The Higher You Get, The Higher you Get as the GoPro video of the day! Check it out and share it with your friends!
Read More...The Higher You Get, The Higher You Get
We got home to Sun Valley exhausted but in good spirits. Cool fall nights and shorter days had already set in, the Aspens were already going golden, the tourists had left town. In my opinion Sun Valley has the best big air flying on Earth. A number of recent distance records, including my own world mountain record this summer of 240 miles confirms this opinion, but what we don’t often get to do is fly here in the absence of fear. Flying in Sun Valley is usually a pretty full-on affair.
Read More...500 Miles to Nowhere
We were four pilots in total: Nick Greece, myself, Nate Scales and Matt Beechinor; each of whom have held the foot launch record in North America for some period over the last 13 months, all but Nick’s set from Bald Mountain, Sun Valley. The route chosen was once again an incredibly aesthetic line of about 500 miles, and we’d learn quite a bit more technical and difficult than what we did in the Sierras, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
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