2 hrs flight at Bingen, WA

Bingen was awesome today and well worth the hike up to fly. I flew from 4:45 to 7pm with more than 20 paragliders. The first 30 mins of my flight required some extra work in search for lifts to stay up, then the easy soaring part started around 5:30pm. Although none of us got real high, we all soared for hours till dark. It was easy climbing up to 600ft above launch. No issues with air traffic because the lifts were pretty wide spread. We all landed in pretty nice smooth conditions by the river.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/fMMi1XeGJFY

 

Thanks for posting this Matthew Huntington. I can't believe google satellite caught me on Bingen west launch. That was capturing on April 1, 2016. It was blowing light east winds earlier so a group of paragliders took a slidders on the south side. I was hang waiting at the west launch alone for hrs on that day. Launched off around 5:00pm and had over two hrs great flights with more than 20 paragliders. Awesome day


Just noticed some new satellite images on Google. Who got caught on the Bingen launch? A few paragliders on the South launch and a hang on the West launch.
https://goo.gl/maps/pWD7SSF671v
(you have to switch to 2D in the menu at the top left to get the new views)