Buried among the "wanna go flying?", "thought I was gonna die", and "sign your damn posts!" messages sent to the CHGPA listserv, a nugget of gold with lasting value will occasionally be found. The same is sometimes true of the national hang-gliding listserv.

Valuable? According to whom, you ask? Well, there's a secret selection committee that meets after each club BOD meeting; every listserv posting of the previous month is reviewed and ranked under the provisions of a complex scoring system, and the select few deemed worthy of preservation are immortalized on this page.

In other words, the choices are MINE, ALL MINE!!. If you have a suggestion for inclusion I'll give it due consideration, but I have to like it too! :-)

• E. Reno's description of a flight at High Rock in strong conditions, on a single-surfaced Falcon
• S. Whitfield's fictional story of a paraglider pilot's deal with the devil: Part I and Part II
• P. Gazis tells of a flight at Big Sur CA during which he was unable to escape a cloudbank, whited out, and was then forced to land in the trees
• "RW Blackbird" recalls a day at High Rock in the 70's when gale-force winds suddenly blew through
• E. June describes a highflight in the Owens in which he experienced hypoxia
• J. Gregor offers approach advice when pilots are in close proximity as they head for the LZ
• P. Lehmann describes his parachute deployment at the 1995 Australian Nationals
• Re-print of an article from Hang Gliding that describes Michelle Cook's experiences learning to fly after being paralyzed in a horse-riding accident
• P. Lehmann critiques an XC and offers general XC advice
• M. Shipley's describes his Pulpit-to-York XC flight
• C. Shelton's notes from B. Pfeiffer's Parachute Clinic