Thursday, August 12, 2021

Paragliding fox

Hello Blog World,

Little Fox here.  Today I am at Longsword Vineyard enjoying a tasting flight, a paragliding competition and 100+ degree heat.  This fox is tough and can certainly handle the heat.   Look at all this wine to try.  Where to start?

The wine is good but the real reason I am here today is to watch the Applegate Open paragliding competition.   The paragliders take off from that mountain over there and land about 100 yards from my table at the vineyard.  Pretty cool eh?
Do you see those white things in the sky?  Yep, about 100 paragliders took off and are heading out on a GPS obstacle course.  They get points for reaching certain parts of the valley and then landing after visiting each obstacle. 
Last year the plan was to watch the Applegate Open (it's in the Applegate Valley FYI) but Covid cancelled the event. 
Roommates had a nice lunch spread.  However, the pictures of this fox enjoying his lunch have disapeared from the phone.  Ah technology......that's okay you can see the paragliders coming in for a landing.
These paragliders who are landing first didn't quite hit all of their GPS coordinates so even though it's cool to watch them land, they were kind of bummed that they missed their markers.  
Luckily this is a friendly competition so all was good. 
Off to my next adventure. 










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