"Rocky Mountain Fever" Hang Gliding Nationals 1995. In this movie we take a trip from Near Toronto, Canada and make a few stops the first being in Sault Lake City, Utah for a look at the Paragliding and Hang Gliding there and then on to Oregon where we do some Windsurfing and from there we stop by Chelan, Washington and Hang Glide with some of the Worls best pilots who are competing in the 1995 US Hang Gliding Nationals. On our way home we stop at Sand Turn, Wyoming and do a little Hang Gliding.
I think I recognize some of the gliders shown in the various Chelan scenes, but it's hard to tell for sure. One I know for sure, though I don't know it's original pilot ( ) is your old Sky Dog HPAT, featured prominently throughout the video. I think I mentioned to you before that I have that glider in my old glider pile, I picked it up for parts for my HPAT. That's a helluva whack you put the poor thing through, no wonder it became a parts glider! (just kidding, I see you were flying it after that whack).
Also the green keel pocket glider with the sketchy launch at 6:23, is that an Airwave Magic IV? If so, I may have that one in my pile as well, my brother picked it up but later loaned it to me and I went and crashed the thing. Eerily, it was a blown launch that did it and me in...
I love seeing the South Side of the Point BEFORE all the development... looks so much nicer That was the first site in the video, for anyone that didn't recognize it.
Second site is Francis Peak, in Farmington, UT (about an hr North of the Point). Still flown semi-regularly, but the airspace restrictions limit the fun quite a bit.
Yes Spec, I was the original owner of my sky dog HP AT 158 and it was good to me although I did a lot of Whacks with it. I in fact bought ten downtubes at one time because I was bending so many and then finally I put a sleeve inside them and that helped. I found my Fusion and now my T-2 much easier to land. The flair timing was more specific with the HP-AT.
Yes Ryan, The Point Southside and Northside sure look a lot different now. Ah for the good old days. I have lots of movies that show much better how the Point looked back then and I will get around to putting them on-line soon.
I think you owe it to us to invest in a new HD video camera and then start making NEW videos of your hang gliding travels. We old guys need to show these young punks that we can make a good hang gliding video too - and with better (?) music!
Yes Spec, I was the original owner of my sky dog HP AT 158 and it was good to me although I did a lot of Whacks with it. I in fact bought ten downtubes at one time because I was bending so many and then finally I put a sleeve inside them and that helped. I found my Fusion and now my T-2 much easier to land. The flair timing was more specific with the HP-AT.
I hear ya on the AT flare timing, but dang that's a major spare DT purchase for one pilot! Most I ever ordered was 6, but that was a group order with two other AT pilots, two DT's each. I'm flying a Talon now and it too is much easier to land than the HPAT. I did eventually get landing the HPAT pretty dialed, and then found I really enjoyed no wind landings with it. Here's one that got on video, audio is out of sync but it's just peanut gallery comments so no biggie:
Hi Scott (Wingspan32)
Now that I am retired the money for new toys is is at an all time low so a new HD camera is out of the question for now. That is just another thing that I would like to have. See you soon for some graet flying at the Finger Lakes Sites.
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) is your old Sky Dog HPAT, featured prominently throughout the video. I think I mentioned to you before that I have that 
That was the first site in the video, for anyone that didn't recognize it.
to invest in a new HD video camera and then start making NEW videos of your 
I hear ya on the AT flare timing, but dang that's a major spare DT purchase for one pilot! Most I ever ordered was 6, but that was a group order with two other AT pilots, two DT's each. I'm