Mike Glennon <<mikeglennon>>
writes:

We will be holding the 5th Annual Hombres Pajaro Hang Gliding
Competition in Roldanillo, Colombia on Jan 18 - 25 , 2014 in memory of Luis Rizo.
This will be a Cat 2 FAI Competition. We have obtained some sponsors which
allow us to offer the following prize money: 1st Place US$5,000, 2nd Place
US$2,500, 3rd Place US$1,000.

The Hombres Pajaro Competition has had a number of international Pilots attend
over these last 4 years, such as, David Brito from Brazil, Davis Straub, James
Stinnett , Mitch Shipley, Dustin Martin, Dean Funk from the USA, Raul Guerra,
Jelko Loor, Fausto and Rafael Arcos from Ecuador, Luis Rizo from France/Colombia.
At the 2013 Hombres Pajaro we had the great pleasure and honor to have Luis
Rizo come back to Colombia and compete with us, where he won flying in
Roldanillo where he learned to fly cross country and compete in his early days
in the sport. Although his passing has hit us extremely hard, we will be glad to
honor him at this competition this January.

Many of you may not know that Roldanillo has become a very important flying site
for the International paragliding community. After holding a PWC competition
there a couple of years ago, all the pilots insisted the next PWC Final be held
there. This happened last year and again all the pilots insisted we obtain the
Paragliding Worlds here. This was also confirmed this year and the Paragliding
Worlds will be held in Roldanillo in January of 2015. The Preworlds will be held
in Roldanillo this year at the beginning of January. We have excellent flying
conditions in January. This year (Jan 2013) we had 5 out of 7 tasks, all over
100 kms long and all with pilots in goal. The practice day we also flew a task
over 100 kms and made goal.

Roldanillo is a small town in the interior of Colombia and is not an expensive
place to stay. Hotels are about US$20 a night, you can cover the three meals a
day with US$10 easily, and international pilots will be adopted by local pilots
so there is no need to rent cars here.