Some images and video from the Hang Glider Nationals held at King Mountain. The weather on the first day was light but good. Several pilots got up and left the hill early, while some hung around until late afternoon to launch.
The day before the competition started saw Dennis Pagen giving a mini seminar about the weather. It was good information, and probably as quiet as the park was going to get as long as there were pilots around.
2009 National Hang Gliding Championships
Where: King Mountain and Moore, Idaho
When: July 20-25, 2009
More info @ http://www.flykingmountain.com/
Come compete in the Hangglider National meet. If you don’t want to compete, just come watch!
Where: MacKay, Idaho
When: July 27, to Aug 10, 2009
More info @ SoarIdaho.com
Get out your glider and come fly King Mountain!
Runway midfield looking north
Where: Here at the King Mountain Glider Park
When: Aug 17th, to the 22nd
Come one out, the flying is especially good this time of year!!
This fall saw a couple of milestones achieved at the King Mountain Glider Park. First on our list is WATER! Thanks to a great team effort from Barry our Farmer, Phil Davies our Master Excavator, and Merritt Lanier our Welding Pro, we got the irrigation system up and running. The water system had sat idle for a least 8 years and to say it was full of cobwebs is an understatement. Nevertheless, water arrived on the South end of the Airstrip and property by the end of the summer and the North half was being watered by the middle of October. We now have little kanggrasses popping up all over the place!
March marks our first year of construction at the King Mountain Glider Park.
On October 11th, Kenny Bell a local farmer used his Brillion Seeder to plant 19 Acres of the runway, tie down and glider staging area. In this Panorama, we are looking left of the tractor to the North up runway 34 toward Sunset Ridge, and to the right of the tractor at the tie down area adjoining the future RV park with King Mountain in the background.