Revelstoke Mountain Resort Spring Paragliding

For the 2011 Easter weekend, a group of us met in Revelstoke for a weekend of paragliding and skiing. I had tried unsuccessfully to paraglide at the resort 3 weekends in the past 6 weeks but was shut down every time due to poor weather.

This particular weekend, the flying gods smiled upon us and offered three days of exquisite spring flying at an unbelievable venue. Thermals were plentiful and strong. We had a wonderful time flying, skiing, suntanning, eating, drinking beer and enjoying the live blues band on the sunny resort lodge deck.

I hope you enjoy this little video. Thanks to the crew for such a wonderful weekend! Thanks to Revelstoke Mountain Resort for allowing us to fly this wonderful site.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Paragliding
• Revelstoke Mountain Resort
• Spring
• Thermals
• Advance
• Epsilon 6
• Paraglide Canada
• British Columbia

[chillmobil]

EDITED TO INCLUDE: Stewart Midwinter was also a pilot whom was part of the team that weekend. He is the grey wing at 0:57 and schooled me on how to fly and thermal with small wings and no varios. Sorry I forgot to include you in the list Stewart. Can you post a link to your video of the base jump, I somehow deleted your link by accident.

[WeknowhoUR]

Oh, to be 25 again.  - Aw, heck, I'm doin' it.

[chillmobil]

@DMW0973 Thermals were big and strong.. We hit the perfect cycle with day 1 being very unstable and getting progressively more stable. Day 3 I hit 11,200' at +4.5m/s. Day 2 my max was 6m/s and it was scary..

Fun though!

[wnikolai]

Wow! Great!

[flyvancouver]

Sweet!!! I keep forgetting how beautiful Revelstoke really is...

[midtoad]

thanks for the memories, Emmanuel.  Great flying with you (@ 0:57) in such wonderful weather and scenery! Let's do it again next year!

BTW my video of the Sky BASE is in the video response to yours.

[tintinsdream55]

Sweet vid, E. Beauty.