Hello Tucson and Southern AZ Crew. Sorry for the late notice but it's been many years in the making and we finally are a go and we need it all now, wouldn't ya know. We need labor this weekend and next weekend and also some help during the week. All launch and campground work needs to be completed by the 3rd! We also received an USHPA Foundation Grant, got our kitty way up and are still looking 4 to 5 k short so any donations will help. I know this will be yet another step in getting us together more and having some Miller and Mingus get togethers.

If you can come up and help give me a call and let me know when or for ANY questions you have. Chandler 602-721-1635

Last time a lot of you guys came to Phx and we were skying out at South Mountain together it made a lot of us here want to do get togethers/AZ Fly-ins more in the future. Hopefully we can all make that happen, and since Mingus is what it is when we get a safer PG launch we will have a great place to camp/have fly-ins/mini comps/etc etc....
There will be more pictures and details on my web site and some more details below.

Thx gang

Chandler

Hello Free Flight Community!!!
The Arizona Hang Gliding Association needs your help. Mingus Mountain has been a historic and epic Hang gliding site since the beginning of Hang gliding and after years of persistence we have finally obtained permission from the Forest Service and powers that be to make it Biwingual!!!!! This is a HUGE undertaking to say the least and we need all the help we can get not only in manpower but financial aid as well.
MOTIVATING FACTORS:
MINGUS MOUNTAIN: 7800 ASL YEAR ROUND BIG AIR THERMAL XC MOUNTAIN SITE WITH XC ROUTES FROM THE NW TO EAST AND MORE DEPENDING ON WINDS ALOFT WITH NO SPECIAL FLYING RESTRICTIONS.
To give you an idea of how incredible a flying site this is and what’s possible I will start by saying that HANG GLIDERS HAVE FLOWN TO GALLUP NEW MEXICO FROM HERE! This is Arizona’s prime Cross Country flying site, with no PG launch!!
Located in the cool Pine trees 10 min directly above the historic mining town of Jerome Arizona, there is enough room to set up 30 Hang gliders and Paragliders by launch, an incredible amount of free camping at our USHPA members only campgrounds, an actual bathroom, and is one of those places you fly that is breathtaking to say the least.
Along with the fact that the historic town of Jerome, Once a thriving mining camp between the late-1880s and early 1950’s, is now a bustling artistic community with a population of about 450 and includes a modicum of artists, craft people, musicians, writers, hermits, bed and breakfast owners, museum caretakers, gift shop proprietors, is an enchanting town, a photographer's paradise, and well you know, an awesome place for the friends and family that don’t fly to go for the day after watching us launch.
Mingus Mountain is simply an awesome place to fly, and hopefully soon to be an awesome place for Paragliders to fly, if we can raise the funds. So please help us with however much you can.
Thanks and in the mean time Fly Far and Land Soft.
Donations can be made via pay pal on our club site ahga.org
or mailed to (please write Mingus in memo)
AHGA at P.O. Box 39013 Phoenix, AZ. 85069


AZ Chandler
www.desertwindparagliding.com

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