Merry Christmas Everyone! Utah Paragliding has partnered with the United Way to sponsor a local family via a sub for Santa program. This family is a single working mother with 4 children ages: 11, 13, 15, and 17. Their needs are pretty basic. If anyone would like to help out please contact Jonathan @ 801-368-5139 or via facebook or email, jonathan@utahparagliding.com or just drop it by. We will be delivering all of the items we procure next Friday the 21st. I will post a detailed list of what we need soon, if you would like to buy something. Or, you can donate a few dollars and I will do all the shopping. I can take any form of payment if you wish you donate to the cause. If we all pitch in just a few bucks eRead More...

Posted on Friday, December 14 at 15:06 PM

Typical Spring weather has us grounded more often than not, especially this week. I would deem this week the worst week ever for trying to learn to paraglide! With 2 big dry cold fronts barrelling through it has been extra windy or windy from the wrong direction most of the time. HOWEVER, we have had a decent spring so far. Travis, Stan and Glenn have all joined the ranks of Utah Paragliding graduates and P-2 pilots. We did a very successful field trip to Randolph and flew the Crawfords. I think we had about 15 Utah Paragliding grads in the air! Also, we did a nice trip to West Mountain last week that went well. The road up to the top is immaculately graded now, which makes for quick turn arounds and more flights! As soon as the wacky weather patterns normalize we will head up to StrawbRead More...

Whoops...  Long time no blog! Lots of down time waiting for good wind this year. You'd think I'd have tons of time to blog. But all my spare time is sucked up sewing paraglider stuff bags for the newly aquired Critter Mountain Wear business. It has been fun to take feed back from the graduates and implement it into new more comfortable designs. Making it more comfy to lug your gear back up the hill after sinking out. Speaking of sinking out and short flights... I have seen more than a few normally spoiled pilots happily take a sled ride down to the bottom of the hill just to get the chance for a short flight when normally they only Read More...