Hi Folks,

Just looked at this thread again.

Thanks for all your answers. No, I'm not a lumberjack but I can do a fairly poor impression of the Monty Python lumberjack song after a few beers. I work in Television and we were making a TV series from near Ely MN for the BBC.

I did not manage to locate any gliding club and fully agree that the opportunities for cross country are extremely limited. When I was there, the sky was full of lovely cumulus clouds. It is worse than looking out of an office window at a good gliding sky. How bad is that??

I did find a floatplane facility and treated myself to a couple of hours of tuition and hooning. Interesting stuff although I would have been far happier in my Ventus.

Thanks again for your help and wishing you happy soaring!

Mike