https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/siteguide daily 0.75 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/c909fd65-1c33-433d-abcc-1539e4cbcf2c/Screenshot+2025-01-09+at+9.44.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Site Guide Important! Please Read! This site guide is for your reference only. Click image to the right or this link here. Before you arrive to Mt. Howard you must sign the online version available on the Membership page of this site. https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2024-07-29 https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/home daily 1.0 2021-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595531106057-6IYZPSQMPZ2N62V3T239/DeltaLZ7.20.jpg Home - The main LZ is flooded in June, July, and sometimes into early August. Depending on when the lake water levels recede, the best time to visit Mt. Howard is mid-August through September. The alternative LZ requires a 1/2 mile hike through tall grass, weeds and steep slopes to a pick-up point. See the Site Guide for more alternate LZ information. We update photos of the main LZ on our FB page. Click below to access the Site Guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595691686351-IJHT4BDX5C34HO6ESJG6/img_2460.jpg Home - ECPC Membership Required Every pilot who flies Mt. Howard is required to become a current member of the Eagle Cap Paragliding Club. Membership dues must be paid before pilots can access the launch through the Wallowa Lake Tramway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595544418019-78JDE15UZRRYBM9BUDUH/HipstamaticPhoto-550544813.863675.JPG Home - The East Moraine Alternate LZ... When the lake water is still too high, the East Moraine LZ is the closest alternative. The narrow, sloped bench LZ is 250 vertical feet above the highway, and about 3 miles from the Wallowa Lake Tramway. The half mile, rugged trail down to the highway is most often traveled by deer and cattle. It is a bit of a hike and can be an ankle turner. (This is Whitney and I land here in June / July and it is often the most challenging part of my flight)! In this image, it is still June and the grass is green. By mid-July it is usually drier with lots of cheatgrass and thistles. Bring gaiters if you come before early August! https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/weather daily 0.75 2020-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595535593530-HUBUXWCCWBE65M9ABZXS/Screen+Shot+2020-07-23+at+1.19.21+PM.png Weather - Mt. Howard Weather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595535245151-R3T2CFNHUQTCF9XZDUS8/Screen+Shot+2020-07-23+at+1.13.29+PM.png Weather - Joseph Oregon Weather https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/membership daily 0.75 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595540025203-7BWXSXJ5E23MR1YTXWB2/Todd+flying+moraine+2020.jpg Membership - Step #1 We want to make it as easy as possible! The Site Guide, Release & Waiver, USHPA member upload, emergency contact information is all in one place for you to sign online. Once you click the link below you will be able to review and sign the necessary paperwork to fly at Mt. Howard. ECPC will receive your signed document automatically. This online document must be signed and submitted BEFORE YOU ARRIVE in order to be approved to fly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595694108180-GCL54KXM3FFG78N43X5N/IMG_6176.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1595540909000-CRF1AY5HQWWSIBPSZE6A/G0046421.JPG Membership - Step #3 PLEASE, let us know when you will be arriving to Wallowa County so that we can arrange a time to meet for a site orientation. The orientation is not required for pilots who have already flown Mt. Howard. Email us HERE or send a message from our FB page (below) with your arrival date well in advance. Remember, all of these steps are because of our coordination with Wallowa Lake Tramway, our close relationship with the community of Joseph, and our desire to manage a safe flying site with a small and limited local club membership. We so appreciate your attention to the details of your trip to visit us. We love to share the skies, we don’t love the management side—together we can preserve this site and have a blast in the sky! (Image is the main LZ around early August.) https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/history daily 0.75 2021-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1626938153348-Y47847OIB2Y3R0Y572KY/HighRes_WF26a032824967821.jpg History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/1626938047854-AZLIO8080HBG2I7DQU8L/DSCN0076.jpg History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847896972-M6Z43LS56WX5T1S74A5I/image-asset.jpeg History https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/history-1 daily 0.75 2024-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/e31f63cf-dc28-46b2-9e86-8b690b9f2225/HighRes_WF26a032824967801.jpg History - Mt. Howard history… Mt. Howard was first flown by hang gliders soon after the gondola was built in the early 70’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/71f8c3c0-5056-45de-89bc-fb6c5999487c/The+Delta.jpg History - Wallowa River Delta late summer 2003 A changing and dynamic environment influenced by humans and the lake’s changing water levels since 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19ce08e0665e6670b30a7e/c07ca1f4-5e66-4e60-9802-f32e5f5b01a0/DSCN0258.jpg https://www.eaglecapparaglidingclub.com/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-08