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By old newbie
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Everywhere I have launched.


Steve
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By W89rnr
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Jokey's Ridge, outer banks NC
Woodstock, VA
BlueSky Flight Park, Manquin, VA
Currituck County Airport, currituck NC
Ellenville, NY
Tobacco Row, Amherst VA
By prestonwood9
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sorry, forced to make 5 reply's to submit a classified add.
By blindrodie
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Hay Preston, it's called "classifieds" on the left there... 8)
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By steve prater
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south, east and northeast sides Mt Nebo, Ar
Mt Magazine, Ar
Petit Jean, Ar
Jasper, Ar
Tow road @ Victoria, Ar. ( I launched . I landed )
Tow road @ Parkin, Ar
Buffalo Mt, Ok
Red Oak, Ok ( Butch's front yard )
Heavener, Ok ( site of the 1977 US HG Championships )
Whitwell, Tn
the famous ramp on the TTT club property Dunlap, Tn
Lookout Mountain Flight Park, Ga
Walaby, Fl. ( AT lessons )
Dry Canyon, NM
By rohayes
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all my flying has been in queensland. Have car-towed out at Hughenden, (scary) as well as Eungella, The Rex lookout and the Gillies in FNQ. Dream to be able to fly Yosemite one day. With the dollar being so strong, might be soon. Bob
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By sam kellner
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Great topic!

At the age of 24, first time ever in any "airplane", ordered a Seagull 3, $465., ok'd by one of the then Houston instructors, never knew who. Drove to San Antonio and picked up the glider at a freight depot, brought it home and assembled it in the yard.

Texas......
Itusco Ranch '74
Boyles Ranch
HorseCollarBluff
Lover's Leap, Junction
SantaAna mesa
Vanderpool
Baldy, GarnerPark
CapRock
Cousin's
Packsaddle
49R Leakey
Hearne
Edinburg
BigSpring
Lewis air field

Calif........
Little Black
Escape Country
Lake Elsinore
Torrey '76-85
Blossom Valley
SanAntonio, Baja

Tenn.......
Millington River banks

Ark.........
Petit Jean '76

NewXico......
Guadalupes @ Queen

Ga.....
Lookout Mtn. Flight Park

Fla.......
QuestAir

Never thought I'd see anyone list the Missippi River banks at Millington, but someone already did! Thanks again for the topic. Let's see more.

Sam #16016
SW Texas Hang Gliders
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By mapjim
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Massachusetts...
- Groton, on an abandoned ski hill, top to bottom (100') on my first day of H1 training, good strong launch, followed by pushing out too much, mushing, drifting into the trees to the right, then back over the slope for a belly landing at the bottom

UK...(after getting a slower progression EP and CP)...

South Downs, southeast England:
- Devils Dyke
- Firle
- Bo Peep
- Swanborough
- hang waiting at Caburn (a 300' walk up)

Marlborough Downs, south-central England:
- Milk Hill

Peak District, north-central England:
- hang waiting at Eyam's Edge

Spain:

Algodonales, southern Spain:
- Lijar
- hang waiting at another site fifteen miles west

Ager, Pyrenees (northern Spain):
- Coll d'Ares

France:

Alps:
- Chorges (east of Gap)
- Laragne, lower south launch

In two weeks, hopefully:

Italy:
-Bassano (Monte Grappa)

Hard to pick a favourite, because many were quite cool. Ager was quite nice, a picturesque Spanish village on a hill with a church at the top, which I got to circle over the steeple of (no lift right then alas, but still fun). Also a monastery built against a cliff down below launch...also fun to fly over, in part because it did have good lift often. And a lovely canyon at the west end of the ridge, and two observatories to fly over (one for tourists, one presumably real), and a car wreck just under the peak east of launch, and a hungry but calm vulture that liked to hang around launch and taste flying equipment. Lovely evening soaring flights sometimes, in addition to the usual thermal day flights.
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By Fred Wilson
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Redbeard wrote:i know we have gained some new members lately :mosh: ...anybody else have a list?
My Top Ten Scenic Foreign Flying Sites:

Australia:
1. Manilla NSW - mine was the very 1st launch there, and I went 100 miles. :thumbsup:
2. Long Reef Northern Beaches, Sydney NSW :shock: :thumbsup:
3. Lake George (Collector) Capitol Territory
4. Mt. Tamborine Queensland

Greece http://www.hang-gliding.gr/diafora/apog ... oseis.html
5. Kalavrita
6. Santorini. (I launched above the Roman Ruins, looking towards the Acrotiri Thera Ruins.)
- I landed on a beach on the eastern shore, in the midst of the biggest / best (locals) beach party ever. :thumbsup:

Italy
7. Monte Cucco

Scotland:
8. Isle of Skye

Taiwan:
9. Puli

Austria:
10. Hallein Tyrol - Long time ago now... Met a very young Xavier Murillo. Very memorable.
Last edited by Fred Wilson on Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By jjcote
#305200
Fred Wilson wrote: 6. Santorini. (I launched above the Roman Ruins, looking towards the Acrotiri Thera Ruins.) :thumbsup:
That was the first place I ever saw a hang glider in person. I was hanging out on Perivolos Beach in April of 1988, and some Scottish guy landed nearby, having launched from the mountain.
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By Hangskier
#305204
In chronological order: Some only once, others many times.

Lake Alfred, Fl
Wallaby Ranch, FL
Quest, FL
Unnamed Lake, FL
Jockeys Ridge KHK, NC
Currituck, NC
Big Walker Mt, VA
Blue Sky, VA

Really want to get out West sometime.
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By jjcote
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jjcote wrote:Morningside, NH
West Rutland, VT
Talcott Mt., CT
Ellenville, NY
The Pulpit, PA
Wellfleet, MA
Mohawk Trail, MA
Brace Mt., NY
High Point, WV
Mt. Ascutney, VT
In the four years since I posted that, I can add:
Plymouth, MA
Petersburg Pass, NY
Mt. Greylock, MA
Skinner, MA
Burke, VT
Utsayantha, NY
Hinesburg, VT
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By TomGalvin
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TomGalvin wrote:Some farm near Rappahanock, Virginia
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Ellenville, New York
Kehonkson, New York
Dockweiler Beach, California
Brace Mountain, New York

I need to get busy adding to that list.
I did not exactly get busy, but I didn't quite slouch the past five years.

Utsayantha, New York (NE,SW,NW launches)
West Rutland, Vermont
Seascape Inn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Mancos, Colorado
Ute Pass, Colorado
Villa Grove, Colorado
Curtis Ranch, Colorado
Continental Divide Lake City, Colorado
Cedar Hill, New Mexico
Dry Canyon, New Mexico
Point of the Mountain(SS), Utah
Camels, Utah
Torrey Pines, California
Crestline, California
Lake McClure, California
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By flybop
#305227
This has been a great thread. I have learned that I need to get out more. Got my H2 in the summer of 2011.

So far: Various training hills in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

King Mountain. Lower launch and Coyote. (Coyote was first mountain launch, lower first soaring flight.)

Sand Turn in Wyoming

Montana:

Hog Back north and south

Daly lake

Philipsburg

McCalister's

East Ridge (Butte)

Fort Smith (Still need to soar this one)

Sites I have been to but never flew because of conditions: Waterloo, Bull Mtn, Grassy Knob, King Upper

Hopefully there will be more added in 2013!
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By piano_man
#305238
Wow great thread. Here's my sites flown list - in the order I flew them.

LMFP, GA
Sao Conrado, Rio, Brazil
Pigeon, GA
Whitwell, TN
Mt. Tam, CA
Wild Cattle, CA
Knob, CA
Alternators, CA
Henson's Gap, TN
Wallaby Ranch, FL
Mt. Nebo, AR
Quest Air, FL
Chilhowee, TN
Menlo, GA
Bell Mt., GA
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