1 hour flight at Bingen 11/09/19

Flying sites in Pacific NorthWest:

http://pdxhanggliding.blogspot.com/2015/03/i-live-in-portlandor-and-do-fly.html

Where to learn Hang Gliding in Pacific Northwest:

  http://pdxhanggliding.blogspot.com/2018/05/where-to-learn-hg-in-pacific-northwest.html

Video 

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Hang gliding flight report (Nov 9th,2019 at Bingen, Washington):

Bingen (near Hood River, Oregon) gave 2 hang gliders (Neil Clark & myself) a great soaring flight this afternoon. The wind speed was PG friendly, approx 5-13mph NW and WNW most of the time at launch (west is a better direction for Bingen). Surprisingly no paraglider show up. I launched first at 1pm followed by Neil shortly. It was about 3-8mph light cross from WNW when we launched so it took us a while to get above launch. There were a lot of consistent broken thermals at the lower ridge but it only goes up to a couple hundred ft above launch level. We landed an hour later around 2pm and it was quite a turbulence and gusty crosswind from NW at the LZ. No white capes on the river.