Paragliding!

So I have begun a new sport.  I am learning how to paraglide nowadays.  It may be folly, to try to learn another sport that is going to take a bunch of time and energy when it never seems like there is enough time for the activities I am currently involved with.  However, I am going to try. 

I was up in Cashmere, which is just outside of Leavenworth at Aerial Paragliding taking some lessons over the last few days.  Denise and Doug are great instructors and have a top notch facility if anyone is interested in trying it out.  It was actually recommended to me by a ski buddy as a great place to learn.  They have these monster hills to go fly off of and little trucks to drive you back up, so you can really make use of the conditions when they are good.  

I started out just learning how to launch the wing and put it down.  Then we did some running downhill with the wing and getting a bit of float.  Before long I was launching off of "Don's" and getting flights of a few minutes.  It really is a great feeling to be flying along.  I am stoked to go do some more and really get some long flights in....