eagle hang gliding

Ribbon cutting for Eagle Hang Gliding and LC Boat Club and Rentals

Jul 11, 2018

The Lake City Chamber of Commerce staff and ambassadors recently had a ceremonial ribbon cutting for Eagle Hang Gliding and Watersports and Lake City Boat Club and Rentals. Both businesses are open in a new location directly across from Fiesta Foods at 303 S. Lakeshore Drive. Eagle Hang Gliding and...

The Eagle has landed on Lakeshore Drive

Jun 14, 2018

A visibly vacant building on one of Lake City’s busiest intersections is empty no more. Eagle Hang Gliding has moved into the north side of the former Conoco building at the corner of Lakeshore Drive and Marion Street. People can stop in to sign up for hang glider flights that have been offered...

Letter: City should overrule marina on bathhouse

Oct 5, 2017

To the editor: For the past two summers it’s been nice to see people having fun at the beach flying with Eagle Hang Gliding. As usual Lake City thumbs it’s nose at another business. A proposal was made for the hang gliders to lease the beach house to promote water sports but the marina said no....

Letter: Let's keep working on Ohuta Park

Jul 20, 2017

To the editor: Ohuta Park is coming along. Officer Schneider’s image is very outstanding. “The Wave” has been touched up and looks very nice. The new retaining wall is very, very beautiful. The new lawn is coming right along. The next move would be to get the wall builders to complete their job....

Elite hang glider pilots fly Lake Pepin

Jun 22, 2017

Members of several competitive hang gliding teams visited Lake City in between competitions the week of June 12 to fly with Dave Dybsand of Eagle Hang Gliding. Among the pilots was six-time national hang gliding champion Zac Majors (pictured). Majors didn’t get to fly on June 12. He arrived just...

One last time enough for old kite-skiing sailor

Aug 3, 2016

Ron Steinbauer, 72, of Winona was a little suspicious when his son, Neil, and Neil’s girlfriend asked him to hunt agates with them around Lake Pepin July 23. He knew that high water on the Mississippi would severely limit how much shoreline would be suitable for hunting. Still, he gamely put on...

Now you, too, can soar with the eagles

Apr 13, 2016

Once endangered, bald eagles are again plentiful around Lake Pepin. Now another creature stands ready to return to the skies over Lake City after a prolonged absence. That creature is us. And on Sunday, April 3, us was me in a tandem harness hundreds of feet above Lake Pepin in a hang glider...