| 1. Spectacular view of the
takeoff. Check out the conglomeration of multicoloured flying
"mushrooms" to the right of the take off. Superd photo. |
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| 2. Another great view of the
morning traffic jam, this time complete with paraglider pilot legs for
authenticity. |
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| 3. WOW!!! Thermal
Alley...and this is NOT a competition, just a couple of hundred sunday
pilots, oh and a few world champion acrobats having a lazy glide on top of
the biggest natural park in europe (The Cazorla Mountains). |
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| 4. Brilliant!!! This is the whole festival ina photo. In
the enlarged version you can see, helicopter, landing zone, beer tents,
bouncy castle, car park...keen eyes and photo enhancing software are
needed to spot that really cute hostess from Airex ;-) |
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| 5. View of the village of Ornos and it's Dam.
Ornos is where you go if you want to swim in it's natural streams or in
it's huge dam.
It's also where you go if you didn't manage to book accomodation in
"Cortijos", the center of the paragliding universe...at least
during the festival. |
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| 6. Cortijos Nuevos, yesireebob, it's the center of the
universe.
If you're amongst the best paraglider pilots in the world you'll
eventually end up here having toast and tomatoes for breakfast. |
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| 7. Raul Rodriguez in his new Edel "Funky", a
radical wing, and Felix (I think?) with the sky to themselves, about to do
something breathtaking no doubt.
Check out Juan's Videos below to see just what they got up to.... |
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| 8. Another view of the slightly crowded takeoff area. |
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| 9. Sniff! That's the Yelmo....it's in Jaen, southern
Spain.....sniff!...and I'm in Madrid....what was it mohammed said about
moving mountains? |
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...and to top it all off some videos of the Rodriguez
brothers doing their stuff.....
(to see these videos you need Windows Media Player 9, a good conection and
a little luck) |
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