Rain, Wind, Pizza and Dicey Landings
After one short flight in Fiesch and a continued blurry forecast we hit the road in the Niviuk mobile for the only place in Europe that held any promise- Bassano, Italy. Many people are saying this is...
View ArticleRuss Ogden Talks, We Should Listen
Last year at the Sun Valley PWC and then afterwards at the Open Distance Nationals some bad ass pilots took the floor on the non-flyable days and shared their knowledge. Veteran comp pilot, Ozone test...
View ArticleChasing Chocolates Part II
When Bruce and I got to launch on Monday at Bassano we were encouraged to have Nicole Fedele and Damiano Zanocco on launch. A good sign that we were in the right place on this most difficult of springs...
View ArticleRat Race
From Zurich I flew back across the pond to try my hand at my first Rat Race, an annual comp and fiesta held in Ruch, Oregon off Woodrat mountain by Mike and Gail Haley. This was the 11th year of the...
View ArticleThe Higher You Get, The Higher You Get
We got home to Sun Valley exhausted but in good spirits. Cool fall nights and shorter days had already set in, the Aspens were already going golden, the tourists had left town. In my opinion Sun Valley...
View ArticleConfessions of an XC Hound- Cross Country Feature
This summer I flew what we thought was a North American Record,...
View ArticleAn amazing year. A look back at 2013
My mom writes a Christmas letter every year and always asks my sister and I to write a paragraph of what we did. For the last 13 years mine has been a discourse on wherever the boat had gone that year....
View ArticleThe 5 most memorable flights of 2013- Red Bull Adventure
Flying his Niviuk Peak3, Gavin McClurg battled his way across Idaho from Mt Baldy, 387km into Montana, committing to some of the deepest, remote solo flying and turbulent lee-side conditions, to...
View ArticleConfessions of an XC Addict- Ushpa Cover and Feature hit the stands!
The January 2014 issue of United States Paragliding and Hangliding magazine just got delivered! Yet another one of Jody MacDonald's amazing shots gets the cover, from back in 2010 in Mozambique, and...
View ArticleEXPERT: How to Avoid a Storm
A little shared knowledge of storm avoidance if you're wandering around by sea or air, as featured on the Red Bull Adventure Channel. Check it out!
View Article500 Miles to Nowhere – the Niviuk Edit
The Cloudbase Collective has just released the Niviuk version of 500 Miles to Nowhere. We've been working hard on the extended edit of 500 for the Film Festival Circuit in 2014 and thought we'd share...
View ArticleConfessions D’un XC Junkie
The French Magazine Parapente just published a great feature about the record flight of 240 miles last summer from Bald Mountain, to Helena, Montana, shattering the North American Foot launch record on...
View ArticleStupid Lines in the Stupidly Pretty
I was very tempted to call this post "Balls Deep" in honor of Tony Lang, who started this rather genital based thread after watching my Spot page and noticing that the flight track did in fact have...
View ArticleThe things we carried
Will Gadd and I just completed what we believe to be the longest connected track log that has ever been flown. About 650 kilometers across the Canadian Rockies to the US border. One rule: all forward...
View ArticleEpisode 1- Bill Belcourt (the Yoda Podcast)
The Cloudbase Mayhem's inaugural podcast with guru pilot and the Director of Research and Development for Black Diamond, Bill Belcourt. Enjoy!
View Article500 Miles to Nowhere in 30 Degrees Magazine
Jody MacDonald once again captures some stunning images of our vol biv expedition in Utah and Wyoming in 2014, which culminated in the film "500 Miles to Nowhere". It helps if you read French, but even...
View ArticleEpisode 2- Matt Beechinor (the Glider Podcast)
Really excited about this second episode with one of my mentors in the big XC game, Matt Beechinor, aka "Farmer". When he flew 193 miles in 2012 from Mt Baldy in Sun Valley I decided my choice to move...
View ArticleCNN’s “The Great Big Story” takes a new view of 500 Miles to Nowhere and More
Just completed a great project with CNN called "The Great Big Story" that came out really well. They took a bunch of the footage from 500 Miles to Nowhere and some other tasty bits from other shoots...
View ArticleEpisode 8, Nick Greece and Progression
I met Nick Greece in Haiti in 2012. I was living in Morocco trying to figure out how to become a better pilot, and getting an invitation from Nick to fly around in the sky wasn't something I could pass...
View ArticleSurfing the Sierras in Sidetracked Magazine
I'm really digging Sidetracked Magazine, an image-heavy publication dedicated to adventure. True Adventure. Our vol-biv expedition up the Sierra range in 2012 was certainly the epitome of epic. We...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....