hang gliding

If you asked someone to list all of the amazing outdoor activities available to those of us that live in Wyoming they would likely suggest hiking, skiing, kayaking, and mountain bike riding. Activities that keep you fairly close to the ground...

For those of us that live here, we know that Casper is a beautiful place. It looks even better when you see it from the view of a hang glider who captured video of his flight off of Casper Mountain.

This looks pretty intense!

This video takes you from launching to landing. He soars high above lookout point, tower hill, Deer Creek, and Boxelder. You get to see Casper at 17,000 feet.

In Wyoming we have plenty of space to let yourself fly free. This guy takes it literally by hang gliding off a cliff at Muddy Mountain.

Considering how windy it is here in Wyoming, the Cowboy State seems like an ideal place for the sport of hang gliding. And it is. Casper native Kevin Christopherson knows first hand. Christopherson is a pilot, a businessman and the chairman of the Natrona County School Board...

If you happened to be in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina recently, and were struck from the sky by chunks of partially digested food, it probably wasn’t a large bird with some sort of stomach ailment that did you in. No, instead you were likely the victim of a man named Jay, who doused the scenic landscape with puke four times during a hang gliding lesson.