Have you checked out Aerotrekking yet?

There is a new type of trike flying going on in the American Southwest. It involves low-level terrain "mapping", or to put it another way, flying "under the radar."

The decision to fly so low is probably best summed up by this quote from their website:

What is the point of flying so low?

It has to be experienced to be appreciated, but when flying at low level there is an exquisite sense of belonging to the landscape that you are flying through. At higher altitudes that sense of being part of countryside is removed and replaced by a sense of being an observer of the ground. In addition,the scenery at ground level is more varied.

Being from the Midwest, I can appreciate the thrill of flying down on the deck... since we can do it all the time over the endless fields of corn. I only wish we had the type of scenery and landscape that they have down in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada!

There is a lot of interesting information at the American Aerotrekking Society Website, as well as the related site of the SkyGypsies

Another example of a BRS Chute in Action