Coming in for a landing while paragliding at Grouse Mountain

[lively2424]

Your on the family website now, thanks to your sister :-) This looks like an amazing experience!

[rcwoods11]

does that mean at some point in the ride YOU were in charge of the controls?!?

[pxw13]

@rcwoods11 Yes -- he asked me if i wanted to fly it. Two straps to pull; I was turning the glider. Freaky but fun! At one point I felt we were suspended, floating, in mid-air but he said we were actually doing 30-40 km/hr. I guess you are so high up that it feels you are not moving. I have one more video and about a dozen pix. I was holding the camera for this video -- I should have turned it to the viewer could see what I was seeing.

[rcwoods11]

THAT WAS CRAZY!!!!! Never in my life would I want to do that ... but it looks like you were a rockstar paraglider! Were you doing turns or something @0:36?

[pxw13]

@rcwoods11 I was no longer in charge of the controls at that point but Todd was putting us in some "wing-overs" -- basically turning quickly from one side to the other, kind of like a roller coaster way up in the air.