Yes, parawaiting is a skill you master in order to paraglide,
This term is used to quantify the time you spend on the hill waiting… Waiting for the the wind direction or strength to change, for the conditions to improve, for the clouds or fog to lift or the rain to stop. In general, waiting for the weather to change to coincide with the prediction on your phone. Simple right? Sure, you could have been home, in your warm bed or maybe out with friends, being social, but with the fear of missing out (FOMO), here you are, on the hill, parawaiting.
When people ask: “Is paragliding expensive?”, my reply is normally YES, in time and fuel. Time spend on the hill waiting and money on fuel, driving to the hill you will be inevitably waiting on. LOL.
Anyway, today there was a lot of parawaiting at Taylor’s Mistake (thankfully in the company of a great friend) waiting for conditions to improve. When lunchtime approached and the conditions were only getting weaker, Clint and I decided to go for a flight down to the bottom, followed by a walk up the hill, on a beautiful winters day.
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43.5323 – 172.5567
7 June 2024
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2 responses to “Para-waiting.”
A rough calculation confirms I have probably travelled about 45,000 kilometres to and from ‘the hill’ if I flew an average of two flights per visit. (current total flights at TM is about 1,494)
Probably not wise to calculate the total for all the other sites we drive to!
Wow, impressive… and yes, please don’t calculate the kilometers for all the other sites because there are commercial flight to some of them involved too.