Ollie Gregory <<olliettt1955>>
writes:

Get ready to get the most out of Team Challenge. Mostly just bring
a good attitude and we'll have some fun!

Everyone coming to the TC that might be interested in trying out some ElectroTow
with Mitch Shipley should bring their tow releases etc. Mitch is putting on a
landing clinic with the ElectroTow system. He says 3 point releases work well to
start with. Intermediate gliders are apparently fun to learn to foot launch, but
topless should start out on a cart. He's bringing all this equipment from Quest
for the Team Challenge week. Jim Rooney will be around all week to help out with
the launch and landing clinics. Of course our biggest supporters Mike Barber and
Denis Pagen are coming to help with all the XC clinics and seminars.

We've put a bunch of money and sweat into our Whitwell launch site. Feel free to
contribute a little loose change to help pay for this huge improvement. We still
have a little more dirt work and erosion management to complete, then seed/sod
the new giant launch mound.

Team Challenge starts Sunday Sept 30th, so get ready! If you are on a team
already, be thinking of a cool team name. If you aren't on a team yet, Mark
Stump specializes in working the teams out, so be there Saturday night for this
fun process! Dick Stern is coming out Tuesday night to talk to everyone about
how TTT got started.

Wednesday night John Stokes and Dale Elaine Kernahan are putting on a bird of
prey show in the local elementary school gym. The show is open to the community,
so bring all your friends and all the kids you can handle. Their shows are
great! Of course we'll have seminars and video clinics and evening debriefings
till our tongues hang out! If the weather cooperates, we'll do a lot of XC too!

There will be breakfast and dinner on site for reasonable prices. We need to
know how much to buy, so go to
TennesseeTreeToppers.org and sign up. If you want to help out a little,
there is a sign up list to bring stuff like toilet paper, paper plates and cups,
napkins and paper towels etc...

There's gonna be a crazy fun on site karaoke party Friday October 5th that
highlights hang gliding parody songs. Anybody out there that can sing Dire
Straits "Money for Nothing" needs to p.m. me as soon as possible! Everyone else
get to creating some fun hang gliding parody lyrics! We'll have several real
singers show up too, so you can pull your fingers out of your ears now and then!
Tina Smith-Theeke is gonna bring some talent!

The big show will wrap up with a huge awards banquet and Octoberfest party
Saturday Oct. 6th. Super cool trophies for the top teams have been created by
Eric Donaldson! I sure hope my team gets lucky and wins some! We still have a
few open spaces from late cancellations. Sign up or show up! You won't regret
it!