The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 6, 1 978 THREE
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down bowling pins, or camp
ing in front of the teevee with a
six-pack account for the
recreation needs for many of
us.
. But when Rick Peterson of
lone wants to unwind, he
gumps off a cliff wearing a
kite.
But he does it well. So well,
in fact, that in two weeks, he
J will travel to Pennsylvania to
compete in the National Hang
Gliding Championship. Pe
terson is the lone Oregonian
to qualify for the nationals in
his high-performance soaring
division, and one of only six
persons to represent four
northwest states at the nation
als. Peterson.? became involved
with hang gliding three years
ago. "I was going to college in
Pendleton, and I saw an ad on
a bui'etin board for a hang
gliding store that was opening.
I'd seen a program on
television ' about it, and
thought I'd like to try it. So I
was the first person at the
store the day it opened,", he
recollected.
That same day, he took his
first lesson, and the following
day his first flight. "I thought
it was something that I could
be good at, so I really stuck
with it," he said.
Prior to that time, the
21-year-old lone man depen
ded on motocross racing to
satisfy his recreational inter
ests. But his dirt bike just
collected dust after he dis
covered the joy of flying.
"I guess it's mainly just the
thrill that attracted me to
hang gliding." he said. "No
matter how many times I take
off, I still get the adrenalin
hill behind the Jordan grain
elevator almost four miles
into lone, landing on the
school football field.
While riding a thermal draft
above Wallowa Lake one
summer, he was joined by a
soaring eagle. "Every time
I'd do a turn, he'd do one too,"
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pumping. It's a rush that stays
with you all the time."
It's not hard to understand,
when you hear about some of
the flights he's taken in his
rainbow colored Dragonfly
model glider.
He's gone as high as 4,000
feet above' the ground during
one competition meet, making
him feel "pretty small and
excited, but not really scared.
I could see cars at the landing
area but not the people, and I
was flying through pieces of
clouds." v ,
On another flight, thermal
conditions allowed him to
remain airborne for 2'2 hours,
giving him an eerie, but not
unpleasant sensation of "not
really noticing the glider at
all. It seems like it's just you
up there." His longest cross
country flight was an esti
mated seven miles.
He has soared across the
Columbia River and back near
Biggs, and once flew from a
lone aerialist Rick Peterson soars off top of butte near McNab in
multicolored high performance kite in photo at right. Below, Peterson folds
up glider after safe landing in pasture at Dick Sherer ranch, to return to the
rklgetop again.
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