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#248 The art of being Bold with Antoine Girard

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2025/06/08

French pilot and serious adventurer Antoine Girard has laid down some of the boldest lines on Earth, and he's been doing it for a long time. Antoine competed in the Red Bull X-Alps four times, starting in 2013 where he found himself on the podium (3rd), again in 2015 (4th), 2017 (badly injured), and 2019 (retired due to continued trouble with the injury sustained in 2017). He's pulled off some of the most extreme expeditions in paragliding and mountaineering in Pakistan on 6 different trips, flew

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The Wanderbird Podcast with your host Gavin McClurg

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2025/01/07

In this bonus episode your host Gavin McClurg sits down with Red Bull X-Alps legend, Red Bull athlete and world adventurer Paul Gushlbauer. Paul and Gavin became friends during preparations for the 2015 Red Bull X-Alps (Gavin's first of 4) and have had some pretty remarkable adventures together, including during the filming of North of Known, when Gavin and Dave Turner crossed the Alaska Range by foot and paraglider in 2016 (Paul was one of the film crew's bush pilots).

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Bonus Episode- The 2019 Red Bull X-Alps (Installment 3)

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2020/06/10

This is the third and final special episode of the Cloudbase Mayhem to give all of the fans of the race a little insight into the greatest game on Earth directly from the perspective of the athletes. Live Tracking is amazing, but it misses a lot of the emotion and the background, and these interviews with the athletes take us behind the curtain. In this final installment we hear from Adrian Keller (SUI 3), Marko Hrgetic Hrga (CZE 1), Willi Canell (USA 2), Maxime Pinot (FRA 1), and yours truly (Gavin

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Bonus Episode! Weather Episode #3 with Gavin Morris

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2020/04/30

Nik Hawks sits down with Australian meteorologist, channel 9 weatherman and paragliding pilot Gavin Morris to talk all things weather, forecasting and identifying good days in this 3rd and final bonus episode in our weather series. Gavin started his weather studies as a surfer in the 80's then moved into reporting for snow and surf forecasts and is now who many Australians see on TV every day to get their daily weather. Gavin says we can think of ourselves as weather balloons as we soar up through

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Bonus Episode! Weather episode #2 with Jeff Shapiro

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2020/04/15

Jeff Shapiro returns to the podcast to share his weather forecasting flow in this awesome bonus episode (using various weather tools, figuring out lapse rate, identifying wicked days, etc) and he shares some incredibly valuable information for managing risk and what the sport has taught him over the years. Jeff brings us along with him on his X-Pyr campaign in 2018 where a questionable call turned out ok and reminds us to "never hope for the best or try to get away with it."

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Bonus Episode! Weather Series Episode 1 with Emi...

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2020/02/26

This is the first of three shows in a bonus series for our subscribers dedicated to building an understanding of the weather and forecasting. Emi Carvalho studied physics in school, but it wasn’t until he began paragliding that applied physics interested him. He talks about the basics of weather, focusing on island weather and the possibilities inherent in an island with mountains over 2,000m. Emi talks about where he turns to first for weather (Windy and any local knowledge), and what he usually

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Bonus Episode- Ken Hudonjorgensen and “Winguistics”

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2020/01/10

Learn the language of your wing and what it's trying to tell you by the legendary instructor Ken Hudonjorgensen. This talk is aimed at lower hour pilots but I learned a ton and no doubt you will as well. Enjoy!

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Bonus Segment- Rick Heatley and the breakdown

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2019/06/12

Episode 91 with Rick Heatley recounted a pretty epic story of things gone wrong with a very happy ending. After we ended the show Rick and I kept talking about the takeaways and some of the things he could have had or could have done differently. Subscriber content that we thought you would enjoy. So we hope you enjoy!

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Bonus Segment- Jeff Shapiro and the Thermal Crescendo

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2019/04/24

We're working on a series of weather shows and Nik Hawks recently jumped on the phone with Jeff Shapiro to talk weather and they headed off into a super interesting direction for about 15 minutes into a talk that Jeff has been giving to his students about how thermals work...and the strategies we need to employ to use them effectively. "Use some fu$%ing discipline!". Find yourself bombing out in comps? Frequently frustrated by a shorter day than you could have gotten? Listen up.

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North of Known- Some new shots!

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2019/01/16

A little visual teaser for our subscribers of shots from North of Known not many have seen!

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An Evening with Paul Guschlbauer- 2017 Red Bull...

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2019/01/15

This is a BONUS episode I have promised for many months, a recording of Paul Guschlbauer's 2017 Red Bull X-Alps talk he gave when he came through Sun Valley (and broke his personal best!) this August to do some flying on his way south on his Supercub Overland Expedition. This took my good man Myles over 100 hours of editing to put together and was a proper pain in the butt, so PLEASE watch- there are many, many gems here and you'll get to see some pretty exciting X-Alps flying.

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Episode 76- The Ask Me Anything show! And a fun...

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2018/10/03

It was a remarkable week- nearly 1,000 km in three flights, all of them one personal best after another. But the big one is a pretty wild story in extreme conditions in huge terrain on a very marginal day at best, and one that probably should never be repeated. Top speeds of 115-120 km / hr in the flats is one thing, but flying over 6 major mountain ranges from Idaho deep into Montana at that speed is certainly living on the edge!

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Bonus Episode! Tom Sliepen and a lifetime of Flight

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2018/09/05

Tom Sliepen is a good friend of mine who hails from Canada and has been flying since 2001. He's a medical helicopter pilot, dad, skilled XC pilot and super passionate about flying but like many of us finds it difficult to carve out enough time to fly and stay current.

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Episode 40- Bill Belcourt Your Questions Answered!

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2017/04/26

And here it is! The long-awaited show hosted by Bill Belcourt, dedicated 100% to your questions. We asked fans of the show to send us any questions related to flying so the Yoda of the sky, Bill Belcourt could answer them in the unique way that only Bill can. We talk about how to deal with turbulence, creating better headspace, how to mitigate intermediate syndrome, how to gaggle fly, how to deal with negative people in a positive way (ie avoiding ground suck), when to leave a thermal, techniques

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Bonus! Larry Tudor and the “magic bus ride”

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2015/02/16

Our most popular shows by far on the Mayhem was the podcast with Larry Tudor, which you can find here. When we got done with the show luckily I kept recording because Larry immediately started relating one of the funniest stories I've ever heard. It all went down in Bir, India and it involved a bus load of pilots who happened to be on acid, a blown transmission, and a whole lot of luck. Prepare to laugh.

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