On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:20:42 -0400, BAR wrote:


That's one of them fancy European slope soaring things,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_soaring.

They run the Appalachians quite a bit with gliders. IIRC, they set a
record something around 1000 miles. The guy started in Pennsylvania went
down to Tennessee, and returned.