2025 DAR Annual Meeting
Date and Time: TBD
It’s been a great last year of flying and comrodery. We hope everyone has had an amazing winter of paragliding or rest, whichever you choose. As our season is firing up it’s time for our annual meeting. It’s been 2 years since our last official elections and we are ready for a spring meeting to discuss the upcoming season. The DAR club will be hosting a BBQ outing, hopefully at freedom after some epic paragliding! Timing to be posted soon.
About the Lakeview Oregon fly-in
2025 Free Flight Festival
Get ready for the 2nd annual revival of the Free Flight Festival!
July 3th-6th located in the great Oregon Outback of Lake County. Open for hang gliding and paragliding. There are 6 beautiful flying sites to choose from with launches varying a whooping 240 degrees! from SW to E. The 2 main flying sites are…
Black Cap located above Lakeview. Works in SW to W wind. site info here also on
Sugar Hill just south of Lakeview and few miles past the California boarder
Other sites Here is a great article on all the flying sites in the area.
We are working on organizing a shuttle for launches and looking for volunteers for retrieves. Please email dessertairriders@hotmail.com or shelley@allaboutlakecounty.com if you are interested in volunteering or have questions regarding the event
The Flight schedule is
- July 4 – Distance Race
- July 5 – Sugar Hill Dash and Distance Race
- July 6 – Spot Landing – Distance Race
When you are not in the air-
- July 4 – TBD
- July 5 – Live music at the Neon Cowboy Roadhouse
- July 6 – Closing event TBD
T-shirts and Registration here (t-shirt with the image above)
Local accommodations…
- Neon Cowboy Roadhouse + Hotsprings – Camping/RV (no plug in) and hotel rooms and restaurant open every evening book
- Wildgoose RV park – camping/RV only book
- Summerlake Hotsprings – cabins and camping/RV book located ~50 minutes north of Lakeview
- Freemont Inn book
Past events
2024 Free Flight Festival
The revival of the Free Flight Festival!
The revival of the lakeview Free Flight Festival was a great comback. Thanks to the lakeview chamber of commerce for pushing some oxygen back into the event. There was lots of good flying and fun with pilots. Thanks for everyone that came and volunteered there time to help with the event. We are looking forward to next year!
2021 Pine Mtn Fly-In
An informal paragliding and hang gliding get-together has been taking place at Pine Mountain almost every year for the last 30 years, bringing smiles to the faces of pilots and their families since 1991. Pilots from near and far gather to enjoy morning, mid-day, and glass-off flights, and the evening gatherings that ensue.
We need a primary venue and fly-in coordinator for the 2021 fly-in! Historically the fly-in has occurred on Labor Day weekend. Email desertairriders@hotmail.com if you can help.
The 2020 Fly-in was canceled due to COVID-19. See the 2019 Photo Album for photos taken during the last Pine Mt. Fly-in.
Thank you to our past Sponsors: AirLink, Blizzard Wines, Eagle Paragliding, Flytec USA, Gradient USA, Ozone, Skydive Awesome, Super Fly Paragliding, The Crash Pad, and USHPA
