Hang gliding really started in the Ottawa Valley when pilot name Bob Johannsen started a school with gliders from Muller Kites. I knew about the sport after reading an article in Esq. magazine in the summer of 1974. At Carleton University, where I was entering second year, I spotted posters advertising lessons for the enormous sum of $35. Somehow I scrounged together the cash and took my first lesson on October 23 call stack year.
By the following summer, I had made several high flights at King Mountain in Gatineau Park but still returned to my training slope at Edelweiss ski hill in Québec when the wind direction was right. Here are some pictures I took at that time of my instructor Chris Mills, who coincidentally was a fellow student at my high school.
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| Chris Mills flying at Edelweiss ski hill |
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| Chris Mills flying down Intermediate ski run |
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| Chris Mills after launch with his Muller 1817 at King Mtn. |
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| Chris flying out to the LZ below King Mtn. |
