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

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!