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Launch zone: How Missoula, Montana is quickly becoming a premiere paragliding hub
August 7, 2022 /
“It’s pretty thermic here — we are not going down as fast as we could be,” Phillips said as he soared a thousand feet above the Smoke Jumper Trail. The Clark Fork River gleamed below. Rattlesnake mountains peaked out from afar. Hikers and animals looked like ants.
Each turn caught a new draft, boosting Phillips hundreds of feet above the ground: “It’s pretty f***ing magical.”
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