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Back to SearchEpisode 123- Best Towing Practices and Safety
I am convinced that with a good winch and good tow-technician, launching via tow is much safer than foot launching and gives the free flight world access to incredible flying in conditions when terra…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 122- Storytime with James “Kiwi” Oroc
James "Kiwi" Oroc is a journalist, photographer, artist and pilot born in the small South Pacific nation of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on the cutting edge o…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 121- Stefan Bernhard and Mindset
Stefan Bernhard has only been racing paragliders for a short time and...
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Episode 120- Lisa Verzella and Understanding XCSkies and Weather Forecasting
Lisa Verzella flew hang gliders for over 20 years (many of those competitively), has been flying paragliders also for over 20 years and is a professional meteorologist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Episode 119- Yael Margelisch and building confidence
Yael Margelisch began flying ten years ago at the age of 19. She's an Ozone and Swiss national team pilot, has been on the podium ten times on the world cup, is the first woman to fly over 500 km and…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Episode 118- Charles Cazaux and Focus
Charles Cazeaux began flying when he was 15 years old. Shortly after that he became the first person to enter the French juniors program that was created to build exceptional pilots who would represe…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Episode 117- Thomas Theurillat and Transformation
In 2008 Chrigel was heading into his first Red Bull X-Alps Campaign, and mountain guide and base jumper Thomas Theurillat was completing a degree in psychology. Thomas was passionate about figuring o…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Episode 116- Chasing Hang Gliding for 47 years with Charlie Baughman
Charlie Baughman has been flying hang gliders since 1973. That's 47 years...and he's still going strong. In 2011 at the age of 64 Charlie broke the Oregon state record (which still holds) when he fle…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Episode 115- Sky Camping with Martin (11 yrs) and Honza Rejmanek
Honza Rejmanek competed in the Red Bull X-Alps 5 times. His last was in 2015 but apparently nutty runs in the family and he and his son Martin have been doing incredible 8 day tandem vol-biv adventur…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Corona Virus- Critical Choices in a Critical Time
This is an emergency episode of the Cloudbase Mayhem that everyone needs to hear. I sat down with two people on the front lines of Covid-19, my sister Lesley McClurg who is a Health and Science repor…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago