Friday, September 26, 2008
Tenerife celebrates 20 years of paragliding
This weekend paragliders in Tenerife are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the arrival of the sport to the islands. (20 years, my how time flies! :) A group of paragliders was to have set off by bus to go to Izaña for a flight early on Saturday morning, but because of adverse weather conditions, has been postponed at the last minute, with the hope that it will place on Sunday instead.
You know you're a paraglider pilot when ... It says here "On cloudy/windy days you go to your favourite site anyway and bitch about the weather."
Nevertheless, a group intend to go up under their own steam, so there may still be flying to watch. Where they will land, depends on the weather too, but the intention is they'll come down on the Playa de El Socorro, in Güímar.
On Saturday afternoon, there's a program of diverse activities including; archery, sack races (remember these from school sports day?), a kite making workshop and more. These activities continue on Sunday.
More details (in Spanish) from the Club Parapente Izaña, whose video is set to Orishas "¿Que Pasa?" Those of you paying attention, will of course, realise the connection, as we saw Orishas perform at the Festival Internacional de Parapente (International Paragliding Festival) FLYPA in May.
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