🎶🌤I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night 🌤🎶
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#tbt to that time I tried to participate in a regio task of the Swiss league (and very miserably failed). 😅
A couple of years ago, we went to Verbier on the first regio task of the season, and met with a few pilots for a flight around the valley. The sun was shining, skiers were skying, paragliders were zeroting. 👌🏔
Leaving the sky lift, we had to walk down a bit on the slopes to ...

Can you spot the spots? 🦠📷🦠
I really need to get a self shutting lens thing (or whatever they are called). For the past few months, I have been manually photoshopping specks of dust out of my photos and it has been driving me insane!
We lost our camera’s case and lens cap somewhere over the Himalayas and since then I am marvelling at how something this small can annoy the crap ...

Have long, boring car ride planned? There are many ways to make it better: play a car game, or stop for a cookie, to see a landmark or to quicky fly off a mountain! #lifehacks 😁
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On Sunday, I told this guy I would not play at paragliding with him anymore; he was cheating! 😂😘
I do love my Alpina, but a Zeno does make paragliding look easier! The glide, friends, the glide! 😍
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#tbt to last year’s colder Winter above lake Annecy. .
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Saturday was a fun day! No flying, but the sun was shining, the pilots were kiting and, right above us, birds were thermalling. Freaking show offs! 🦅😝
Merci @kat_para pour la photo et la Tequila! 🍹
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Magic Cavallaria! ✨ Almost every time I come here in the Winter, I think there is no way I will fly longer than 15 minutes. But the magic of the site never disappoints and I am always amazed by the magic lifts! ✨
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How do you plan your weekend? We typically make a different, but very firm plan every day of the week. The evening before, or when we wake up on the day, we double-check the forecast and decide what to do.
And then: we end up going somewhere else! 😂✌️
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I had to squint to see where I was heading today! The air was thick in the inversion layer. I peeked over it when I reached cloud base over Cavallaria, and I could not see the ground below the mountain! Under me was an ocean of white, framed only by the Alps behind me. It was beatiful, but unsettling: kind of like when you lose the ground under your feet when swimming in the sea. ...

Today was a fun day! No flying, but the sun was shining, the pilots were kiting, and right above us the birds were thermalling. Freaking show offs!😛🤬
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I found Slenderman! 👽
He is currently on vacation in the Swiss Jura, enjoying the view of the Alps.🇨🇭🏔
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New valid and fulfilling hobby alert! ⚠️
Jumping pictures! 🏃‍♀️ My inner child is really happy. 🤓🥳
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Fly into the week like a glider taking off in the lee! Mondays are rough. Tuesdays are a little bit less shaky. Slowly make your way through the week, putting distance between you and the mountain of troubles. Before you know it, Friday is here and you are soaring above it all! Happy Tuesday everyone! .
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So I finally took the time to write a bit about my trip to South Africa and sort through pictures. (Link in my bio)
My expectations going there were quite optimistic, and it took a while adusting to the reality. I didn’t fly as far or as long as I wished. And as much as I try to reason with my petty self, I can’t help but feel a teeny tiny bit bitter.
On the one hand I regret not ...

So today I went on a hike & hike adventure. It is an activity that ressembles hike & fly, but which only a select type of pilot can achieve. The training required is similar, and it takes about the same energy and motivation.
The key difference resides in the choice of gear.
Namely, if you forget your freaking harness, you will hike back down. 👍👸
There is a saying in ...

Fun on the other side of the Alps! 🪂🙃🪂
Nobody told the air in Italy that we are in January, and we played in it for way more time than I thought it would be possible in the middle of the Winter! Thank you, magic Cavallaria! ✨🌟✨ .
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Whoohoo! ✋🤚
Flying into the weekend, like it’s Summer! 🪂
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Well, I left this crazy colorful place and am now back under the heavy stratus of Geneva 😭. Thankfully, I did play a bit with my camera during my trip to Summer and got a few good memories out of it! 🙌🏞
This beautiful pool (created by a dam) was just above our house. And I sat still on its shore a couple of times in hopes I would catch interesting animals on camera. I was even there ...

Finally a day I feel really good about! I didn’t fly that far, but I felt at ease during the entire flight! 🧘‍♀️ No crazy wind to break thermals into a million pieces, no crazy wind to flee away from as fast as I can, no crazy wind blowing me to and fro above the field I want to land in. Life is better when the wind is acting reasonable! 🪂🌬
📸 from this morning’s launch ...

Yesterday was not flyable, so we found other things to do. The guys chose to go on a safari or stay home, and I went on a hike. I was hoping I would see a few local wild beasts, but all I saw were pigeons, insects and spiders... so many spiders! 🦗🕸🐜
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I bombed out today. 🤷‍♀️ Though I am feeling a bit frustrated about it now, I just couldn’t get really excited during the flight. The forecast announced quite a lot of wind, and that kind of put a lid on my willingness to fight to stay up. My mind was not completely in it and I lost the battle to stay airborne. 🪂
Oh, and I flew a grand total of 3km in 1 hour! 🤘😄
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How do you get a bunch of pilots to jump into their harnesses and take off in an inversion layer? 🪂
Easy: you fly over them, yelling “do you plan on flying today or what?!”
This guy came from above us this morning and got everyone off the launch in less time than it takes to say “Nananananère” 🤣👋
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Tricky conditions up there allow for a good meal and a solid nap down here. Vacations can be pretty hard, so I’m not complaining about the down time! 😉
I bombed out on the second flying day of my stay in South Africa. 🤷‍♀️ We left home with a 100k flight plan. 😎 I took it down a notch when I was swept by a strong lee wind on launch. 😖 Once in the air, I settled for a dart ...

We didn’t fly today, it was way to windy! 🌬We went all the way up to the take off only to look at disapointed comp pilots launch into a bumpy, sketchy sky (the pre PWC task was cancelled). But I found a waterfall at the foot of the mountain and lived my best shower gel commercial fantasy, so I am calling the day a win! 🌺💁‍♀️🌺
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Today was a good first day! We flew in the flat lands. Thermals were quite strong and I didn’t feel much like letting go of my breaks to take photos. But I flew my biggest FAI yet, and took the best the sky had to offer today, so even if I don’t have much to show for it, today was a great day! .
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Welcome to South Africa! I didn’t fly today, the non-existing take off kinda messed up my mojo. And I love my Crocs, but I was not prepared to hike in them, should I have bombed out far away from a road. There is a saying in French that has unfortunately become my motto: « quand on a pas de tête, on a des jambes », i.e. if you don’t have a head, you better have legs. But what the heck do ...

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. 😆🐥
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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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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...