hang gliding
Lake full of fun seekers
Jul 1, 2020
Ben Threinen of Lake City submitted these photos of people enjoying themselves on Lake Pepin over the weekend. Above, a group of people relax aboard a pontoon and auxiliary vessels. At right, an Eagle Hang Gliding flight nears its conclusion. The lake promises to be busy again this weekend with the...
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...
Sight of a hang glider on Lake Pepin brings back memories
Apr 13, 2016
Lake City resident Bill Webb felt a wave of nostalgia watching Dave Dybsand and his crew test their boat-launched hang gliding equipment on Lake Pepin recently. In the 1950s, Webb and another young employee of the Bell Helicopter Company near Dallas, Texas, decided to design a glider that could be...
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...
Company tests boat-launched glider
Mar 31, 2016
Dave Dybsand of Eagle Hang Gliding awaits pick-up after landing a custom-made hang glider on Lake Pepin Tuesday. The two-person glider is launched like a kite from a platform on the back of a specially outfitted boat. Once it reaches altitude, the cable is released and is reeled in as it parachutes...
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