Willi 2025 Registration Is Officially Open!
Welcome! This is the official website and your definitive information source for The Willi XC Challenge – a hang gliding and paragliding event in Golden, BC, Canada. The 2025 edition of the Willi will take place at the fantastic Mount 7 flying site and Golden Riverside Campground from July 26 to August 3.
What’s New This Year For The Willi?
In an effort to provide greater clarity on rules and have expectations met, a number of changes have been made to the rules and messaging of the Willi XC. These updates can be found in this section and also in the About page – especially under Rules. Please read through these carefully before registering so that when we arrive we can all focus on having great flights and a great time of hanging out and building community!
Thanks to new ownership of the campground (and main LZ), 2025 will see a return of the Willi to the Golden Riverfront Campground, formerly Golden Eco Adventure Ranch. This will allow a centralized location for our meetings, daily events, and landings providing a greater community focus for our event; something that has always been a key element to the Willi.
The campground has generously donated the event pavilion for the awards dinner on Sunday, August 3 and we plan on having awesome door prizes, great food, drinks, and a great time to hang out while also recognizing this years winners.
The main LZ now has a landing fee of $10/day or $50/season. This additional fee is collected by the Golden Riverfront Campground (either at their office or online) and is used to help maintain the landing field, pilot washroom and other amenities for the pilot community. For paid registrants of the Willi XC they are offering a 15% discount to this fee.
While we want to keep the Willi as financially accessible as possible we have made a small increase to the registration cost. Early bird registration will be $160 if paid by June 15th and $200 if paid after. This will allow us to offset some of the ever increasing costs and also provide an event that we will be truly proud of. Please note also, we have decided to cap registration at 110 pilots and this will be on a first payed basis. While we love building the pilot community through the Willi, our flying site can only comfortably accommodate so many pilots and we feel this number is a good compromise.
For more details and answers to your most common questions see About.
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