Who remembers when we had hang-gliding at Sugarloaf???

Once again, a million Thank Yous to Michael Thom whose film camera captured rare footage of the hang-gliding ‘festival’we had in the ’70s at a time when a couple locals were doing it regularly (as often as possible!). This event was a real draw for the locals… the Who’s Who of the region can all be seen, from our beloved Uncle Al, to the Mountain’s Real Estate agent C. Susan Mason, to Wende Frutchy (now Gray & on BOD Ski Museum of Maine) then Mountain Marketing, & lots of other familiar faces of the times!! I’m pretty sure the weather didn’t co-operate for the fliers though, which was too typical of why it never became a bigger destination for hang-gliders… the old ‘wind in the Mountains’ factor made it too rare to be good to go! It WAS cool when it was happening though!!!