B.C. man paraglides to work to avoid highway closure

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B.C. man paraglides to work to avoid highway closure
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As Highway 97 remains closed due to a rockslide, Craig Pingle, a manager for a winery in Summerland, B.C., has found some unique ways to get to work.

Friends and colleagues have since suggested other modes of transportation — like riding on horsebackCraig Pingle has found some unique ways to commute following a highway closure — including paragliding.

"Now it takes about two hours or more if there's some traffic," said Pingle, who works as a general manager for Haywire Winery. So Pingle did. In a video posted on the Summerland winery's Facebook and Instagram pages, Pingle can be seen hooking a parachute to a backpack, licking his finger and holding it up to get a sense of the wind direction, and taking off with a work briefcase in hand."The people are getting a kick out of it though."Friends and colleagues have started offering suggestions for his next commute.

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