00:00 - Intro, ridge soaring the south leg
01:43 - Hang gliders
03:53 - Ridge soaring the north leg at 2x (playback speed)
04:48 - Resume 1x, thermal, wrap-up

Ridge soaring along the Massanutten ridge (Virginia, USA) in an ASK-21 sailplane one fine winter day. Special thanks to tow pilot EL.

The heroes of this clip are the hang glider pilots (HH and BE) who brave the elements (minus 4 degrees Celsius in winds exceeding 50 mph) without even the meager protection afforded by a sailplane fuselage.

All maneuvers were performed by highly experienced pilots and should not be attempted without appropriate training or flight experience.

Interested in flying sailplanes or hang gliders? In the Greater Washington (DC, Maryland, Virginia) area please visit:

Skyline Soaring Club skylinesoaring.org
Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association m-asa.org
Cumberland Soaring Group cumberlandsoaring.org
Shenandoah Valley Soaring svsoar.org
Atlantic Soaring atlanticsoaring.org

Capital Hang Gliding And Paragliding Association chgpa.org
The Maryland Hang Gliding Association marylandhanggliding.org

Elsewhere in the US:

SSA (Sailplanes) ssa.org
USHGA (Hang Gliders) ushga.org


Music credits:

Farewell Transmission, Magnolia Electric Co.
The Birth and Death of the Day, Explosions In The Sky
Broken Boy Soldier, The Raconteurs
Dreamt for Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain (Aka Maxine), Sparklehorse


This is a Lo-Fi production. For professional HD soaring video, please look elsewhere on vimeo.com or try gpgliding.com.