Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Israeli Pilots in Paragliding Festival

Among the guests in a paragliding festival we had two pilots from Israel, Teddy and Tal.



This was gentle evening soaring. Typical for mountain weather, it had actually been raining, briefly, around noon. The launch site is just about the Austrian hut, and accessible by car.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Caucasus Paragliding Festival | Gudauri

Irakli Kapanadze organized a great paragliding festival, the first Caucasus Paragliding Fly-In, at the end of June.



On the Monday, we went out flying to Gudauri. Here we are flying over Kudebi, with Mik Broschart from Nova. It's tough working your way up to over the peak, since you risk flying into an isolated valley. But if you stay close to the mountains, you can soar up. Launch is just up from the Austrian hut.