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I created an interesting interactive map with tracklogs of several pilots bivy flying around the world.
Check it out!
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a trip in the High Atlas, Morocco
During these 36 minutes you are gonna hike and fly around an unreal landscape of the High Atlas in Morocco, with these 2 pilots from the Blues Team (originally from St Hilaire, France). For 13 days they challenged strong winds, tired legs but also more than 4.000 meters and stunning scenery. April, 2013....
the Pyrennes
This last July 2014 I was addicted watching the race X-Pyr, a bivy-flying style competition across the Pyrennes. Based on the X-Alps, the competitors start at the same place and time and by flying and walking (when weather doesn't allow to fly) they need to go over some turnpoints.
The X-Pyr was more than 400km non-stop flying and walking, 4 days for the number one.
the south face of the Pyrennes
In a more relaxed way, few...
Bivyflying the ALPS in live!
Californian Dave Turner is flying right these days through the Alps, from Nice (France) to Slovenia, by just hiking, flying and carrying his light equipment (31pounds).
Dave, an experimented bivy-flight pilot has already done beautiful paragliding lines around the Sierras (see: http://sierraparagliding.com/first-complete-crossing-of-californias-high-sierra/) and the Alps on 2013 (see: http://sierraparagliding.com/alps-vol-biv-expedition-2013).
You...
Alaska
Mitch Riley and Will Brown share this video of their Bivy-flying the end of this 2014 spring in... ALASKA!
Beautiful footage of these friends facing big mountains, big bears and big weather.
Mitch commented: "this place is definitely the most remote I've ever been. After one outlanding it took us two and
a half days of serious bushwacking to get to a road."
"The
flying conditions were not "Big Air"(...). In
the middle...
Ultra light mountain equipment
http://www.randonner-leger.org/ is a french website about ultra light equipment to walk. You can find there reviews of equipment, from sleeping bags to cooking pots, as well as advices and resources very useful to get your camping equipment to the very minimum weight.
After reviews in their forum and tests, they selected some of the equipment in this section:
http://www.randonner-leger.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sommaire_selection_materiel
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510 miles in Californa
Dave Turner, a professional pilot from California, just finished 510 miles (820km) bivy flying in the wild Sierra Nevada, south to north of California!
After completing his solo and unsupported bivy flying he resumes:
"What an amazing time I have had along the way. Big thermals, demanding flights, steep hikes, heavy pack, sketchy conditions; all were encountered on this south-to-north traverse of California and the High...
3.000km in the Rockies
2 french cousins, Thomas Punty and Nelson Defreyman, are on their way for a 3.000km bivy flight across the Rocky Mountains.
Starting the last 15th march 2014 in Canada, they been cross-country skiing, mountain biking and walking till they found the good weather to start to fly.
Follow their adventures (and get a little bit jealous) on their blog: http://www.xrockies.com...
a 1.000km in Central Asia
At the issue 151 of XC Magazine, Stefan "Boxi" relates his unsupported 1,000km vol-biv through the heart of Central Asia, from Dushanbe in Tadjikistan to Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan. Summer 2013.
See more at: http://www.xcmag.com/2014/02/wild-at-heart-stefan-bocks-flies-the-heart-of-central-asi...
a 4 days route in nepal
Location: Nepal
Area: central Nepal (Himalayas), Annapurna and Manaslu ranges.
Dates: best XC from end of january to end of march.
I've been flying 15 years, enjoying anything related to paragliding: soaring a 100 meter slope, finishing some beautiful triangles in big mountains, parawaiting hours and hours with friends... but never discovered the bivy flying till I went to live in Nepal. It's not that I didn't...
