Here is something completely new to me: Paragliders set up temporary winch sites in interesting places.

A terrific video of a near miss between a power plane and winch line taken from the paraglider perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKsk8mPnPQ

More information about the incident on a UK General Aviation forum http://ukga.com/forum/viewthread?sho...essage 145894

Video of a paraglider payout winch equipment and typical launch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH4frJwlrVU