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#paragliging in #Colombia
Things have been a little bumpy this week, between me having some low-grade stomach bug and the weather being flaky, but today was awesome. Best flight ever.

Yesterday and this morning, we had an extremely narrow launch window between when the clouds lifted high enough above launch to fly but before the rain started up on the mountain behind us. About 30 minutes to get all of us in the air, but we did it.

We were able to stay on the lower ridges of the mountains and gain altitude. As the rain moved east, it pushed us out into the valley but by then the thermals were working really well.

I was with my group and guide for a while, but then a couple people landed out and I ended up getting lucky and catching a good climb out over the town of Zarzal. Our guide had to land, so I played around a bit at cloudbase – literally the wispy underside of the clouds at the top of the thermals – then half heartedly headed north on a long glide to landing.