I live in Morrison, CO just up against the Rocky Mtns. My wife, 2 daughters and I have been here since May ‘07 and have been in heaven ever since. We like hiking and being outdoors in general. I swim, or Mtn Bike often to get rid of nervous energy and the biking here in Willow Springs is phenomenal. Gwen and I had sold our 2 Camp Bow Wow Dog Daycare/Boarding businesses in 2007 and are thankful to have the extra time to enjoy life. I’ve been focused(obsessesed) with hang gliding since the Summer of ‘02. First it was just to get up higher and higher, then to stay up longer, then to go farther. I don’t know when the passion will let me go, but I’m loving it.
About that, we live 15 minutes from a fun flying site in Golden, CO. It’s a 1000ft thermal site and it really makes you work hard to rack up airtime. When the steam from the Coors plant blows into launch, the conditions are great to launch, and of course it smells like Hopps. Pretty great place.
Grew up in Fort Worth, TX
High School: Paschal.
College: CU-Boulder (BA Mechanical Engineering)
Job: Network Design Engineer for Verizon Business
World Records: Class 5 Hang Glider Declared distance of 236 miles; 25k triangle speed record 27.5minutes – pending ratification: 50k triangle speed record 1hr – pending ratification
Hi!
And congratulations to your world record.
My name is Marko Wramén. I am the editor of the Swedish paragliding and hang gliding magazine Hypoxia.
Right now, I am editing the news for the next issue. I would love to have some more info about your record flight, and some high res photos of you and from your flight.
If you could email that to me, I would be very grateful.
Best regards
Marko Wramén
By: Marko Wramén on September 9, 2008
at 7:23 am
Hi Marko,
Thanks for the interest! I just sent a big article/pictures over to the USHPA magazine editor. They want to be the only people to release the story so I reckon I have to honor that! Bummer! I think it’ll be in the next magazine. If they let me release the story after the magazine prints, I’ll send the whole file over to ya.
BJ
By: BJ on September 9, 2008
at 5:17 pm
BJ great blog. I really enjoy reading about your flying in Colorado. The pictures are awesome. What type of camera are you using?
Bun
By: Larry Bunner on November 16, 2008
at 8:55 pm
Thanks Larry. I’ve heard your name somewhere. Do you know Steve Ford? I take screenshots from my HD video footage. It’s the cheapest no-frills HD video I could get and I think it was 150-170 at Target. Super lightweight! Doesn’t have zoom, doesn’t have any features really but perfect for HG footage.. http://www.aiptek.com/ model AHD21X.
By: quienessupa on November 17, 2008
at 12:57 am
BJ, Sorry for scareing the hell out of you wed. Nice pic tho. See Ya up on the hill
By: Dean Lassek on June 19, 2009
at 3:04 pm