Thursday, February 08, 2007

Valle De Bravo



January 14th through the 21st, I accompanied two friends, Cody Dobson and Greg Billow to Valle De Bravo. Absolutely the best hang gliding trip ever! We set up our trip through Fly Mexico, a great orginization that took care of all our needs during our week long stay. We ended up flying six days, and every day was great. The weather was picture perfect providing excellent soaring, some days cloud base being reachable. Every morning our driving crew would have our gliders loaded up, and soon after breakfast we would head up the hill to the main launch eight miles ouside of Valle De Bravo.








The food in Valle De Bravo was the best! Most days our relatively short cross country jaunts would end at a roadside restaraunt, typicaly close to one of many generous sized LZs. At night, our dinner choices were unlimited, however the street tacos around the square at Valle De Bravo always scored high marks among the pilots staying in town.




One of the amazing elements on our flying trip was the crazy amont of Para Gliders. Every morning we would arive at launch and there would be literealy dozens of Paras either in the air or waiting in lines to launch. One morning in particular I counted over one hundred in the air with an additional fifty on launch. With amazing orginazation they were launched and by the time we were set up, the Paras were up and gone!


2 comments:

Sandy Wright said...

What a fun trip Brother! Do you remember when I hang glided with you? We should do it again!

Unknown said...

Beautiful pics! Looks like a great time... Hope all is well... stay in touch... Jake