Sometimes I fancy myself a talented (iPhone) photographer. 😎
And sometimes I shoot pics at random over my shoulder. 🤓
Turns out I might be most talented when not looking at the screen of my camera! 😅
📸 taken this Saturday, pressing all the buttons on my phone with gloves, backwards and over my head. 👸
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Do you ever forget stuff when you step out of the house? 🤔
Forgetting things is kind of part of who I am, I have always been a bit of a scatterbrain. 🤷‍♀️ So, more often than not, I reach launch only to find that I forgot part of my gear! Nothing to fret over if it is only a hat, socks or extra snacks. I won’t freak out either if I am not launching for a long XC flight and I ...

Between the weather being really petty on the weekends, the sun setting at about 1:30 PM (or so it feels like) and a general lack of motivation to get my lazy butt off my cosy couch, I am not getting a whole lot of flying done these days. 🌨🤷‍♀️ I have basically been cramming a whole year’s worth of couch potatoe-ing into the month of November. 😎
It’s all about balance, ...

Flashback to that time I signed up for a local competiotion to mix things up a bit. The air was super stable, and my vario forgot all the waypoints when I turned it on on launch. I sent the ok message to the task organizer hiked down with a couple of friends and then launched into the green! I just couldn’t cope with the stress of handling instruments, listening to everyone stressing out about ...

Currently in Spain and grounded, so this feels like a good time for a throw back to the last time I was grounded in Spain (for completely different reasons 🙃), but pretending I could fly. 😆🐥
📸 by @jacob.nicolas .
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Hike & fly season is upon us! ⛄️🥾
I used to hike quite a bit. And climb (although badly). And swim regularily. I have never been a sports junkie, but I was putting some half hearted efforts into various physical activities. All of that has now gone through the window, and I only willingly move my butt if there is a chance I could be rewarded with a flight at the end! I also take up ...

Whoopsie daisy! 🙈
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#groundhandling #paraglidinglife #goparagliding #weliveparagliding #amazing_paragliding #20minphoto #other_prespective #paragliding #parapente #gleitschirm #paraglidinglove #VisitGeneva #igersgeneva #ig_geneva #weliveparagliding #myromandie #unlimitedswitzerland #loves_united_switzerland #igersswiss #Ig_switzerland #lematinphoto ...

At the end of my very first XC flight a few years ago, I landed on the bank of the Rhône pictured here. I had decided to fly as far as I could and it was an exhilarating feeling to launch without knowing where I would land (I mean, you never really know whether you will land at the LZ, but that time, I just didn’t know where I would end up at all). A few years later, whenever I get ready on a ...

“If we run uphill really fast and then make a U-turn, we can TOTALLY take off!” 👍🤣 .
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I loved hiking through the forest in Himachal Pradesh. 🌲🌲🌲
Underneath the trees, I found familiar smells and colors and I felt at home. And whenever I got a peak out of the forest, it was like peeping through an open window on another world! Behind the first range of mountains towered 6000 meters high giants; away from the protecting shade of the pine trees, lizards and snakes were ...

Pop quiz: should you land before or after you start hearing thunder coming from advancing storms? 🤨
If you ask this guy, there are several correct answers! 🙈⛈
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Flying logistics used to be easier during the good flying season than during Winter: sunny days meant less clothes to put on, no worrying about having to dry drenched equipment, and easy car rides (no snow)! Easy, peasy! ✌️😄
Now that I am getting the hang of cross country flying, Hammertags and good forecasts mean figuring out how to dress for all seasons in one day (from super hot down...

Current mood: rebooting. 🧘‍♀️
Since I came back from paradise on earth, the weather has been moody, and I have not fought the change of pace that came with it. I am getting my glider revised and my variometer fixed, and I have fallen out of my usual routine. It feels nice to hit pause, once in a while, but I feel that I am becoming a bit antsy. 🐜🐜🐜
It’s time to turn it ...

Flying through clouds ☁️☁️☁️
I got a lift up the side of a castellanus today! 🙈🤩

Today we flew up to 4500! 🏔 I could have gone higher: the lifts were there and many pilots were hopping from one to the other. But rocks and snow are definitely not an environment I feel comfortable in, so as I saw 4444 pop up on my vario, I headed straight back to the first ridge! 😅 Today’s goal was to fly high, and this was high enough! North India is a really wonderful place: starting ...

I flew my first 100k of the season today, yay! I met eagles for the first time in India (three handsome creatures who nicely shared a thermal with me), 🦅 and in a pack of 50 vultures and other birds! 😱 I thought it was mayhem above the paragliding take off until I saw the state of the vultures’ launching place! 🚗🚚🚙
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A couple of days ago, we hiked up to a small temple dedicated to Hanuman.
We did not see any monkey then. But today, the mountain hosting the temple was full of them! They did not seem to mind the hundreds of colorful gliders lurking over them, and hopped happily under us!
Link in bio for a full account of today’s flight and meals. (yes, the food here is just as good as the flying; I ...

Bir, Himachal Pradesh 🏡
I am really enjoying my stay in this little village in Northern India so far. The food is incredibly tasty and vegan-friendly, the flying is great, people are easy-going, the dogs are lovely, and did I mention the incredibly tasty food!? 🍛🥟🍲
I had a great day today, even though, flying-wise, it was a bit of a bummer. I could not get in the zone, and ...

Today we took a break from flying and went on a small trek. I love how we can call hikes “treks” around here; they sound like adventures! 🐒🌳🏃‍♀️
So we trekked from Billing’s launch site to a Hanuman temple higher up in the mountain, and then back to Bir. We got lost quite a few times, saw exotic birds and snakes, did not pack enough food or water; at the end of the day it ...

Yesterday was a day full of monkeys! 🐒
On launch in the morning, cloudbase was below us. I tried to find a way to the top of the ridge, climbing through trees and clouds; it did not work. But it was time well spent: I spotted a tribe of several dozens monkeys! Not a sight I am used to in the Alps! 🙈
As we landed early (because of overdeveloppments - again), we visited a nearby town ...

@jacob.nicolas ‘s photo from yesterday is just too good not to share! This big bird was flying right behind his glider, using its drag to rest! Vultures around here do not seem fazed by the hundreds of pilots invading their airspace. They fly really close to us and often join us in thermals when they see us rising; they don’t even try to find their own lifts, away from us tourists! 🦅

Indian landscapes 😍
Everywhere you look there is something to see, hear or smell! On every ridge, there is a village with children cheering you on. The forests are made of many different trees and smell of santal wood. Who knew that paradise was really only just a few hundred meters above the earth? .
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Today’s flight was shorter than I would have liked, but it was higher than I could have hoped! I flew up to 4000 meters for the first time in my life (I had never dared to in the Alps)! When the friendly clouds started to get bigger and darker, I cut the fun short and hurried to the landing zone. As I was gliding down to the valley, my shadow and my rainbow kept me company once again! ...

Today’s flight was one of the most magical I ever had the chance to experience.
I patiently climbed my way to about 1000 meters above cloud base, slowly gaining height between the ridge and the whimsy clouds, and then I glided down to the flats on a gentle white cotton candy slope! Friendly vultures kept me company, and my shadow hopped behind me in its own circular rainbow. That’s the ...

Landing in Bir, just in time to meet the hubby, who flew twice the distance I did in more or less the same time. 😄if following birds around was not the most efficient flying strategy around home, it definitely isn’t either in India! But the local vultures were the most chill guys I ever flew with, I wanted to be part of their squad! 🦅
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After two planes and a 6 hour drive, we arrived in Bir, India! Today, we caught up on some sleep. Tomorrow, we will check out the place from above 😄
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#paragliding #birbilling #parapente #paraglidinglife #paraglidinglove #india #dragonflydoesntflyaway 10/19

Some pilots have mastered the cobra technique and look like skilled snake masters on launch.
I am still perfecting the wacky car dealership inflatable tube guy technique myself, and am getting pretty good at it, if I may say! 😎🙋‍♀️
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You may see this as a sky half full. I chose to see it as a sky half empty; I’m an optimist like that! 😋
I was hopping in and out of clouds and lost sight of the mountains a couple of time (oups! 🙈). Thinking of the sky as half empty and frantically checking my gps is what kept me sane during these incredibly long seconds! 😅
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One last photo of a powered paraglider in St Hilaire, tying my grid together 😄
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Pilots are flocking to Brazil, chasing records and it is going to be an exciting month! Until I got into paragliding, I never really got the point of watching sports (I didn’t get the point of doing any of them either. How I have changed!). But now I am compulsively refreshing livetracking webpages, rooting for pilots to fly further and faster. Good luck to all pilots chasing the 600k!
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😉 to this weightless pilot.
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#paragliding #parapente #gleitschirm #gleitschirmfliegen #paraglidinglove #flylikeagirl #adventure #wanderlust #mountainview #jura #vesancy #juratourisme #gex #jesuisdanslain #auvergnerhonealpes #igersfrance #mountainvibes #skyparagliders #skyaeon #xcflying #lematinphoto #cloudporn #instaclouds #cloudstagram #other_prespective #stationmontsjura...

Lightweight gear is awesome and terrifying at the same time 😱😍
I’m used to my Skin P (a single surface glider) by now, but I just paired it with a Roamer P (a really basic mountain harness) and the combo made me feel a bit exposed. 🍑 Not packing a jacket or gloves yesterday definitely did not help me shake the feeling! 😅 But how easy is it now to hop to the top of a mountain and ...

Zoom zoom! 🚀
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#paragliding #parapente #paramotor #paramoteur #ppg #paraglidinglife #paraglidinglove #weliveparagliding #otherprespective #amazing_paragliding #gleitschirmfliegen #gleitschirm #adventure #coupeicare #igersgrenoble #sainthilairedutouvet #dudekparagliders #dudeknucleon #plateaudespetitesroches #auvergnerhonealpes #myauvergnerhonealpes #iseretourisme ...

Switzerland Wonderland 💚🇨🇭💚
Landing in Le Châble.
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#paragliding #parapente #gleitschirm #gleitschirmfliegen #paraglidinglove #weliveparagliding #amazing_paragliding #flylikeagirl #adventure #wanderlust #mountainview #aerialphotography #xcflying #mountaingirls #verbieralive #mysummerinvalais #moneteenvalais #myromandie #swissalps #blickheimat...

Who ever tried this to get down? 🙃😄
I have only ever seen tandem pilots do this M shaped thing in Annecy. Never came across it anywhere else, never seen a solo pilot do it. I have a feeling my Alpina would not be happy and might slap me in the face if I tried (litterally: this looks like a big fat collapse in the making!) 👋😅
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Jumping into the rainy, windy week like it’s Summer...
... or not. I’m sad 😭
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#paragliding #parapente #gleitschirm #gleitschirmfliegen #paraglidinglove #flylikeagirl #adventure #wanderlust #mountainview #jura #vesancy #juratourisme #gex #jesuisdanslain #auvergnerhonealpes #igersfrance #mountainvibes #flyozone #ozonezeno #xcflying #lematinphoto #cloudporn ...

Perfect timing at @coupeicare 👌 The first time I ever saw a paramotor take off was five years ago. The guy ran across the field I had just landed in and then flew up to the cliff I had just left to do a bit of soaring. It completely blew my mind! 🤩😱
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The season of big thermals seems to be coming to an end around here and the Xcontest season is almost over. I haven’t beaten any personal bests and didn’t score as much as I had hoped I would a year ago. But I have climbed over mental barriers, and worked hard on becoming a better pilot. These are untangible achievements and it is harder to appreciate them, but I feel better equipped to fly ...

Tiptoeing on a steep launch.🕴
I loose all my confidence on steep slopes, and it shoes 😅😱 I am pretty sure the hikers on top of Mont Grammont were a bit worried for the scared looking girl who could not put one foot behind the other without stumbling; I looked like Bamby tied to an oversized kite 🤷‍♀️
But I was not worried. I knew I would mess up, I would swear and I knew ...

Running back to Geneva, following a hike&fly&hike&fly (an activity performed by those highly skilled individuals who lose their phone on the hike up to launch 😬). Why was I running after that? Well, my ride home had only signed up for one hike&fly! 🏃‍♀️😅🤷‍♀️
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