Hang Gliding Campaign

Issue#11 Jan-April 2010

Blog Entry:
05.May.2010
I left the beach in December
and spent christmas with family in Flori-
da. Flew one day at Quest, Dustin took my
brother up for a tandem flight and treat-
ed him royaly and let him to fly and land
the glider. After Christmas my dad and I
drove across the country back to Utah. I
went back to school. Classes started on
the 6th and took up most of my time this
winter, but not all of it.
 Since I’ve been back I made a few T-
shirts and have given my little brother
a few hill lessons. He’s picking it up
pretty good. It doesn’t surprise me ‘cause
he has been driving for me and my dad so
he has seen lots of flying. He needs to
keep it in a little more sometimes, is
getting better at flaring and he has no
trouble running when he needs to and also
carries the glider by himself. It’s neat
to think maybe one day all three of us
could be in the air thermaling together.
I fixed may Dad’s glider, I’d broken
one of his down tubes the last time I was
here. It wasn’t hard, the trickiest part
was to slip the VG out of the old and into
the new. School has kept me very busy but
my mind is always on flying and when ever I
get free time and the weather looks right
I’ve gone.
 Early this year I had some fun cold days at the POM (Point of
the Mountain). There were some good afternoons on the south side
covered in snow. All the mountain site roads were snowed over so
there aren’t too many flying sites to chose from. In march I got
a chance to fly the North side the day after the board meeting and
Zippy was there giving a tandem clinic.
He and Dude gave me a lift to the upper launch and I had a great
flight. TJ and K-T were there, he got a sled ride and the next day
K-T was able to fly my Falcon on the south side. She did really,
really good for her first flights in the west.
I thought things would be warming up and spring flying was in
but then more snow came. In April
enough had melted off for us to go
exploring. We found out that the
main road to our PG site has been
blocked off in several places. The
north side has even more houses
planned for the top and the road
to Inspiration was still closed.
We knew Camels would have a lot of
snow we went down to Navel, UT.

Top: TJ setting up to land lower
North Side POM

Left: Dude and Zippy about to

take a tandem clinic flight, Dan
holding the nose. North Side
POM

Bottom: K-T’s second flight on

the South Side POM
Winter Flying
The road to Horse Heaven is looks to
be well maintained and it was fairly dry
until we got to the last straight away
and it still had a few feet of snow. We
were so close so we hiked our gliders the
rest of the way. We were finally ready to
launch at about 3 pm and I took off in a
great cycle. I was up over launch main-
taining pretty good and then my dad joined
me and then a really nice thermal came
through. In no time we were up over the
top towers and looking over the back and
north.
We didn’t have radios but it didn’t
take much for us to understand that we
were going to go north toward Levan. I
was flying my Super Sport and ready to go
cross-country. My dad got ahead of me
but didn’t luck out and decided to land
behind my Grandpa’s place I hung out a
little longer and landed a little north
of him. I flew over 5 miles, landed on my
feet and smiled for a long time.

April 24, 2010
A few weeks later we went exploring
West Mountain. It is different every time
we go there. You can never really predict
what the wind is going to be like and I
think I launch from a new spot every time
I go there. It’s very pretty you can see
all of the lake and the different val-
leys. It’s was super green and we saw some
geese, hawks, vultures and some pelicans
flying. We were there kind of late any way
so I just took a sled ride out over
a group of people shoot-
ing guns. I’m glad
I wasn’t down
range.

I made a short vid-
eo and established
a Hang gliding you
tube channel and
more videos will
be loaded soon. In
the last few days
I‘ve been finishing
classes and get-
ting ready to go
back to the KHK to
work this summer.
Today I had a great
day of Flying. I
got two flights off
Inspiration this
week and got to fly
with some really
cool pilots locals
and visitors. A
group headed down
to Horse heaven to-
day and bet they
had a good time
too. Best of all I
got to fly with my
dad again and he’s
always been my best
help and support.
This summer is off
on a good start and
I know it only gets
better.
EM
Check out Videos on Youtube of Papalotes 2153.

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