Paragliding Archives - Edwin in New Zealand https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/category/paragliding/ Edwin's Adventures Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:11:23 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cropped-5D3_7107_DxO_8_DxO_9_DxOContrastOptimizer_8B_resized-150x150.jpg Paragliding Archives - Edwin in New Zealand https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/category/paragliding/ 32 32 Paragliding to the cliffs https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/2024/02/paragliding-to-the-cliffs/ https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/2024/02/paragliding-to-the-cliffs/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:59:15 +0000 https://edwinov.com/edwininnz/?p=12814 The post Paragliding to the cliffs appeared first on Edwin in New Zealand.

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Today I went paragliding at Taylor's Mistake, I stuck a GoPro on my shoe and hoped it would provide some watchable footage. I went to the cliffs and then back, I didn't have enough height for a toplanding (or is it 'top landing'? since none of my landings are top I'll stick to toplanding) so I landed halfway up the hill

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Yesterday it was announced that today was going to be another ‘Hike and Fly’ day. That is: you hike up a mountain but fly down. This is at the start of the hike, a hike that I’m familiar with already

My t-shirt is soaking wet from sweating profusely, carrying a bulky heavy backpack with a paraglider is exhausting! Though there’s snow/ice on the ground I’m hot AF

I’ve made it on to the ridge, the rest of the group is well ahead of me, now it’s about a twenty minute walk to the top

The top with a lovely view over Lyttelton Harbour

The rest of the group

That’s me!

Me coming in for landing

And a video

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My very first ‘Hike and Fly’: walk up, fly down! We’re flying from Mt Guy, which is quite a walk up

The views are awesome with all that snow on the mountains

Take a right here and it’s straight up Mt Guy

Two Thumb Range

A good way up the mountain now, Lake Clearwater on the left

A well deserved rest, luckily the sun’s out

Lake Emma, I’ve hiked around that lake too, nice there

Nearly at the top now, it’s tough going in that snow and my boots are soaking wet

On the summit! What a view! What a day!

There’s not much wind, there’s debate on what part to take off from: here or over there

Enjoying the scenery and judging the wind

Taking a selfie, someone’s got to do it. On the left is my soaking wet pullover hopefully drying up a bit in the sunlight

Just a bit of relaxing before we take off

I didn’t bring a GoPro so I don’t have footage of the actual flight (stupid, I know) but here’s a photo of someone else coming in for landing shortly after I landed myself, back at Lake Clearwater

We wait around a bit until about everyone has landed

The windsock and the end of a nice day. Good exercise and nice flight. I should do more Hike and Fly!

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Rachel recently had a big birthday so I gave her a tandem paragliding flight with Grey Hamilton, from Cloudbase Paragliding, where I learned to fly a few years ago. Here Rachel is getting strapped in to the harness

Getting close to launch, exciting!

Who! Stay here, don’t go yet! Those legs, it just looks funny

Ready to go now, fully concentrating on launch

There she goes!

On her way to the cliffs

Plenty of lift today

Whilst Rachel is flying I take some photos of an overhead hang glider

Rachel on her way back

Looks like she had a good time!

Here a video of the actual flight

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I was paragliding at Taylors Mistake today when I noticed a couple below me that was out for a walk and taking some photos of me (I can’t blame them!) so whilst flying above them I asked if they could somehow send the photos to me

Which they did (thank you Peter Savage), and this is the result! Cool photos!

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Second flight from Little River in total, first thermal flight ever with a decent altitude gain, quite scary at times, not used to collapses yet!

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Even a simple sleddie at Taylors Mistake is always fun (it's the walk back up that isn't)

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Today I made 3 flights from Mt Cheeseman, my first thermal flights!

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Today there was a rather strong wind, good for paragliding beyond the cliffs but tricky for landing

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I took up paragliding recently, it's great fun!

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