It's been a while. I hung up hang-gliding and sold my wing shortly after breaking my arm. I've done a couple of tandem hang-glider flights with Mike at Ft. Funston. I took the money from the hang-glider, bought new skydiving gear & headed off to Byron. I spent the summer learning to free-fly with my buddy, Zack. We made about 100 sit jumps over the summer & learned to fly relative to each other, take docks & be safe about it. I've moved on down the road a few miles from Ft. Funston to Mussel Rock in Pacifica. Zack gave me some pointers on paragliding, lent me his wing & off I went. I've now got 11 hours of paragliding at the Dumps in Pacifica. It's as fun as skydiving.
In September I went ahead & ordered an Ozone Rush 2. It's fast but still slower than a skydiving canopy. My maiden flight lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes. I spent 2 hours in the air on the second flight and yesterday after a month off I spent a whopping 2 minutes in the air. I took off from Walkers Launch & it was a sled ride to the Beach. I decided to take the week off work & am hoping the winds are good for some flights.
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I think that's me on my wing... unless you know someone else with the same custom colors... Can I get a full res version of that photo?
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