Paragliding at Blossom Valley | Incredible lift | 2 hours in the air | XC to El Cap!

This was an amazing day for sure, for a few reasons. One of those reasons is because of how long you could stay in the air.

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New personal best. I launched from the bail out. (Not recommended)

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Wind report was telling us it was going to be about 10-15mph at the launch on top.

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Phil set up and launched. He asked me if I had ever launched from the bail out landing. I said not yet. Today would be the day.

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Chris from MaxPara on youtube had some great flights as well as @paleotreats.

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The puffy clouds mark the areas of lift.

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The lift was perfect. Not too strong.

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I hooked the first bit of lift I could find and went to about 2500 ft AMSL.

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Phil was flying around at about that altitude when he said:

if you want to go to El Cap you can @captianobviou3

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I thought about it for a few minutes, and said "Sounds good to me."

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I thought the Go Pro was off and I was turning it on for the adventure... Fact is it was on, and I turned it off...

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Rookie mistake...

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This day turned out to be my most amazing flying yet.

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The first hour was flying across the valley.

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Today the air was magic. Everywhere you went there was some good lift.

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The guys were taking pictures of each other flying into the sunset.

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At one point I could hear Phil yelling at me to turn right. He was taking my picture with his phone. LOL

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I got a short video of the guys launching into the sunset.

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What an incredible day. See video below!

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"no risket, no bisket" lol
Shame to gopro died, batteries or storage?

Batteries. Thats why I was being conservative and missed the XC that day. So sad. I found a cave on the other side of the valley. It looked super cool over there too. I will be back there again. I just need the weather to cooperate.

It is crazy the way the air can react sometimes.

Have you ever done free flight stuff?

No, only powered flight. I have done tandum skydiving 3 times as well but I wasn't in control....etc.

Great stuff, I found you, now you must found me. ;-)

Thanks for stopping by! It was great to meet you too! See you on discord.

Cool, amazing, and stunning !

Thank you my friend!

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