Episode 120- Lisa Verzella and Understanding XCSkies and Weather Forecasting

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. She competed on the US World's team in 1998 and 2008 in hang gliding. This show is in two parts. The first is our typical audio podcast that goes into Lisa's vast and fascinating history of chasing airtime, and the second is a video tutorial of a deep dive into XCSkies and Lisa's full weather flow (ie all the stuff she uses before she gets to XCSkies to identify good days to go flying).

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#260 On top of the World with Fabian Buhl

#260 On top of the World with Fabian Buhl

German alpinist Fabian Buhl comes from a background of climbing and mountaineering and is credited with ascending some of the hardest routes on Earth. A few years ago while climbing in the Karakoram o...

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#259 Pete Thompson cracks the 300 FAI in Colorado’s Deepness

#259 Pete Thompson cracks the 300 FAI in Colorado’s Deepness

Pete Thompson had a hell of a summer in Colorado. After years of planning and trying to fly big, epic FAI triangles across the highest terrain in the lower 48 he finally beat a record set only last ye...

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#258- Ariel Zlatkovski and Project 100: the Ultimate XC Challenge

#258- Ariel Zlatkovski and Project 100: the Ultimate XC Challenge

This past XContest season (2025) Ariel Zlatkovski decided to take on a fantastically bold and totally mind-bending mission: Fly 100, 100km flights in a single season. To pull it off he'd have to spend...

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#257- Chrigel Maurer and the Safety Debate

#257- Chrigel Maurer and the Safety Debate

Two weeks ago at the World Championships in Costelo, Brazil a competition pilot was killed. This tragedy sparked an immediate and fiery response on social media calling for a top-down change at CIVL, ...

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#256 From Newbie to the Red Bull X-Alps with Sebrand Warren

#256 From Newbie to the Red Bull X-Alps with Sebrand Warren

Sebrand Warren got his start paragliding just a few short years ago in the US but got hooked immediately and set his sights on the ultimate challenge- the Red Bull X-Alps. Last year he dedicated himse...

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#255 XC Concepts in depth with Calef Letorney

#255 XC Concepts in depth with Calef Letorney

In this episode I dive in once again with Calef Letorney to explore advanced cross-country techniques, focusing on thermal flying, the impact of wind, the concept of shark flying and a lot more. We di...

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#254 Simon Oberrauner and Cracking the Code

#254 Simon Oberrauner and Cracking the Code

Austrian athlete Simon Oberauner has competed in the Red Bull X-Alps five times and has always finished in 6th place or better. In this year's race he placed third for the second time, a mere seconds ...

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#253 Ask Me Anything with Karlis Jaunpetrovičs

#253 Ask Me Anything with Karlis Jaunpetrovičs

We depart from the Red Bull X-Alps in this episode and dive into a whole bunch of questions that have come in this past year from our listeners. And instead of answering them on my own we return to Ka...

22 Aug 20251h 40min

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