I don't think I can ever see me doing any paragliding - I am too freaked out by heights.
I expect there is a tremendous feeling of being at one with the birds and the views must be unbelievable -but the thought of potentially smashing into the ground [or trees] at the end puts me off.
Having said that, I didn't see any bad landings so maybe its not as dangerous as I fear.
This was the landing target -it doesn't look to me like it would be very visible from the air, though most managed to land close.I saw two little kids triumphantly carrying off some small blue flags, so the target must have become progressively more difficult to see as the afternoon went on.
A few paragliders landed in the middle of the mountain bike racers, and the billowing parachute was an awkward obstacle to cycle round.
The mountainbikers were taking part in a 4hour moutainbike relay race over snow -La 4ème édition des 4 Heures VTT sur neige.
The two-person teams had to cycle a 6km route as many times as possible in 4hours in relay. The snow was pretty thick and visibility poor so it must have been hard going.
A pile of bright red snowshoes just begged to be photographed.
A very sleek black skidoo was a more hightech approach to speeding across the snow-they make a lot of noise and have other drawbacks but they do look like they would be fun. I can't drive and I am pathetic at steering virtual machines in computer games so I'd have to give the skidoo a miss too.
We saw a dog sled pulled by some beautiful huskies -it was possible to reserve rides on the dog sled in advance, I think the price was around 35 euros per person so it would have been a bit much since there were 4 of us.I would have liked to have taken a ride on the sledge, though, maybe another time.
I have some really lovely photos of the dogs themselves which I will post tomorrow.Tags:
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