Slope Soaring -- David's Trips

This is a brand new page. Some of the pictures are missing, but will be available as soon as I can find them
and scan them in -- when I have spare time I've been spending it on building and flying...but I will eventually get them all in....

Click on any picture to see the full-sized version:

Flying at Torrey Pines

Flying at Poway

Flying at Castle Mountain between Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada (this required a two-hour hike up the steep Castle Lookout Trail)

Flying at Kapuna Point near Waihe’e, Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A.

Some of the friendly locals at Kapuna Point - Left to right, John, Richard, Zipa, and me

Flying at roadside pullout in Maui just east of Wailua Valley State Wayside on the road to Hana

Launching at east side of Four Corners overlooking Sausalito and the San Francisco Bay

Flying at east side of Four Corners overlooking Sausalito and the San Francisco Bay

Sorry it is so incomplete -- life is very busy just now...I will fix it as soon as I have the time to track down and scan the pictures I took prior to getting a digital camera.....

Other places I've done slope soaring while traveling:

Vollmer Peak east of Berkeley, California, along with several other beautiful sites in the San Francisco Bay area such as Four Corners, Tick Hill, Windy Hill, and Berkeley Marina.
In addition to the Maui pictures above, I tried out several beautiful slopes with great views, great lift, and lots of jungle to lose your glider in if you goof up. I did this on two slopes, then spent a couple of hours on treacherously steep slopes with dense vegetation looking for -- and finally finding -- my glider (see the Wailua picture above -- I lost it up above the trees straight up the mountain at the very top of the picture!). This led me to invest in a "model down alarm" from Ohmark so that I can find my glider more easily when I pull goofy stunts like this in the future....
Muller Windsports Ltd. , a Paragliding site about 30 minutes west of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. The nice people there let me fly their super hill for a while since there were no paragliders or hang gliders in the air at the time.

Want more info on slope flying? Try www.slopeflyer.com as well as some
of the other links found at the top of my Slope Soaring in North Texas page.

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