The closest Rich Selgrad has ever gotten to achieving his lifelong dream of flying like a bird is when he is up in his hang glider or paraglider. “I’ve been wingtip to wingtip with a bald eagle,” said ...
It was my first day of hang-gliding lessons, and already I felt like a bird. A big, stupid, flightless bird. I was running around in a damp field, harnessed into a huge set of wings, sweating like mad ...
YOU JOINING US THIS MORNING. YEAH, WE’RE GOING TO GLIDE RIGHT INTO OUR FIRST LIVE INTERVIEW. IT’S BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST HANG GLIDER FLIGHT AT GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN. YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE TO ...
Michele Holland ’87 needed to fulfill her one-credit physical education requirement (which was a thing for college students some 30 years ago). One day on campus, she saw a flyer for the University of ...
Every time Pocatello hang-gliding enthusiast Dr. Paul Allen perches on a launch site on the slopes of King Mountain about eight miles north of Arco, waiting for the wind to carry him aloft, he wonders ...
The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...
Like any other weekend, Whitehall hang glider Don Lepinsky gathered with friends from the Montana Gliding Association to fly with the birds above Red Mountain. They drove south of Butte into the ...