Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Canadian Paragliding Nationals, July 20-27

 

This was a nice week flying with pilots from all over the world. We get to fly 4 tasks with one very nice and memorable one cruising under the clouds along Copper Mound to Macleod. Not sure what happened but one of our friends had to deploy his reserve in a wide open space at the end of the course. Some buddies went to help him from his landing spot. Another pilot had several deployments (twice in almost the same spot) necessitating two helicopter rescues.

I made goal twice (of 4 tasks) and came in 'solid' second after Nicole (same as in 2017). Pete placed second place too, in Sport Class (of 77 pilots, I'm 21 in this group). Oh yes, and I also was second in Fun Class (EnB wings, of 22) and 2nd Canadian women.