Hi Mike,

I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ely is a 10 hour drive North of where I
live. It is a lovely part of the world, but very remote. There are no
soaring clubs in that area. There are soaring clubs in the Minneapolis
area. There is a club in Osceola, Wisconsin which is NE of Minneapolis. I
fly with the Minnesota Soaring Club which is about 1 hour South of
Minneapolis. There is also a commercial soaring operation at Faribault
airport which is also an hour South of Minneapolis.
You can see some details he
http://www.ssa.org/WhereToFly
and he
http://www.soarmn.com

Feel free to call or Skype for more information.

We start flying in early to mid April.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
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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