USA

Paragliding in Torrey Pines. Photo: Annie Pearsons / sandiego.org

Guide to Torrey Pines, USA

Torrey Pines is one of the most historic in the USA. Come and soar the Pacific coast – but mind your manners – it's a busy site
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The best days are post cold frontal. Photo: Nick Greece

Guide to Woodrat, USA

Woodrat, Oregon is home of the famous Rat Race comp, in the heart of the great American outdoors
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Smoky mountains. Photo: Jody MacDonald

Guide to Sun Valley, USA

Prepare to rodeo – this is Sun Valley, the Wild West of free-flying
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Riding the Sierra Nevada from Walt’s Point. Photo: Jonathan Dietch

Guide to Owens Valley, USA

The Owens Valley is not for the faint-hearted, but pick your season, and the valley’s rocky peaks pump powerful climbs up to 6,000m over the deepest valley in the United States
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The site overlooks the Los Angeles basin, home to 20 million people. Photos: Jonathan Dietch

Guide to Marshall, USA

Marshall Peak is in the San Bernardino Mountains on the edge of the Mojave desert. It's one of the USA's most reliable mountain thermalling sites
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Guide to Jackson Hole, USA

At the entrance to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, Jackson Hole is one of the most picturesque and ‘Wild West’ locations in the United States
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Florida is flat: Following friends along the milk run. Photo: Ricker Goldsborough

Guide to Florida, USA

Florida offers benign XC flying in a subtropical paradise
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Heading north east into the big wide yonder behind launch - perfect flatland flying. Photo: Stefan Mitrovich

Guide to Chelan, USA

Chelan is a welcoming vacation town with lakes and mountains. It offers the pilot unlimited big routes across the flatlands, with mountain flying too
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Gavin McClurg. Photo: Jody MacDonald

Footlaunch paragliding record falls in the USA

Gavin McClurg broke the US paragliding foot launch record on 15 July 2013, flying 383km from Sun Valley, Idaho on his Niviuk Peak 3.
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Trophy night at Rat Race 2013. Photo: Andy Pag

Rat Race 2013 podcast: Final glide finish + Laddie Shaw + Keiko Hiraki

Last day at the Rat Race and the final podcast from Andy Pag is packed.
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