| Date
| Site
| Forecast
| Winds Aloft
| Comments
| Results
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| August 31
| Woodside
| High 20
| P.O.P. 70 percent, if the rain doesn't let up head for Blanchard/Whidbey as an alternate.
| 280 @ 6 knots at 3000 feet
| Grouse Report - Eric and I flew at 5:30 pm, good reversible launch cycles, some lift on the cliffs. Very cold with freezing level at 1400 meters, nice to have warm gloves and a good flight suit.
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| August 30
| Bridal
| Mainly sunny in the PM, High 24.
| P.O.P. 30 percent. Cloudbase forecast to be above 6600 feet, could be quite dynamic after 2:00 PM!
| 240 @ 8 knots at 3000 feet
| Grouse Report - Glen Taylor was heading home at 4:30 pm, wind over the back and crossing from the west. Some pilots got off earlier and it wasn't easy launching.
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| August 29
| Whidbey Island
| Cloudy. Chance of a shower. High 22.
| P.O.P. 30 percent.
| 270 @ 8 knots at 3000 feet
| It rained most of the day in WA, I doubt there was any flying at Whidbey - bad call.
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| August 28
| Bridal
| Cloudy later in the day. Chance of a shower. High 20.
| P.O.P. 0 percent.
| 270 @ 7 knots at 3000 feet, 300 @ 12 at 6000 feet
| Woodside Report - Woodside was crappy yesterday, Bev had to land in the bail-out due to heavy sink. Bridal Report - I got 1 hour, Norm 1:30, Alan D and Mark Fraser were up 2:15. Klaus and Rob Samplonius also had nice flights. We all launched around 4 PM. I top landed twice at lower, Alan and Mark both Top landed at Upper Launch. Nice conditions, but you had to work for it - Ian Johnston (last year Ian couldn't even spell "top land" :->)
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| August 27
| Woodside
| Cloudy. Chance of a shower. High 19.
P.O.P. 30 percent.
| P.O.P. 30 percent.
| Light and Variable at 3000 feet
| Weatherman fooled us again, only Justin got to fly Woodside and it was very rough in the air! Good news was no broken bones this weekend!
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| August 26
| Woodside
| Cloudy. Chance of a shower. High 19.
P.O.P. 60 percent.
| P.O.P. 60 percent.
| 220 @ 12 knots at 3000 feet
| We kited all day in Agassiz, reports of gusty winds all night by pilot that slept up on Woodside. No one flew.
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| August 25
| Woodside
| Cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of a shower. High 21.
P.O.P. 40 percent.
| P.O.P. 40 percent.
| 230 @ 7 knots at 3000 feet better for Woodside so long as a cell doesn't bunch up on the front of the mountain (tough call today, Bridal appears socked in on radar)
| Bev and Brian flew Woodside, so-so flights, a little windy.
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| August 24
| Woodside/Bridal
| Sunny in the PM. High 26.
| 0% P.O.P.
| 200 @ 6 knots at 3000 feet better for Woodside until later when Bridal should turn on
| Woodside Report Norm, Dad and I went over to Woodside, the LZ winds were about 10 kms, so we went on up, it was stronger at launch but launchable. Norm was our wind dummy
and went off beautifully and got 1 and a half hours soaring, Dad launched and flew out. The winds picked up at the LZ, I launched along with two other visitors I didn't
know, I had some nice flying 'til I reached the ridge I got whacked real hard but controlled the wing, I had no penetration what so ever and had to go on to
speedbar, I drifted a bit while not penetrating to the back which was fine as I let myself get there, speedbarred over the hay field closest to the mountain and
landed, hovered actually and came down very gently. The winds picked up to about 20 to 25 km strength. My strongest conditions yet for me, and I normally would
not have launched in that but once in flight it was too late as the winds picked up while in flight grrr, but it was manageable for all that flew, and we all landed safely. (You might want to edit this novel heehee) - Bev Lawlor Grouse Report - Grouse was as usual not what it appeared from a distance. The cu's above were
moving west but the peak was wind still with nice cycles coming up. Mark was up
over the base of the Cut for almost an hour, and I had about ten minutes of
smooth lift over the Peak before it started to shut down. Very heavy moisture
haze over Capilano Lake looked like it was turning to fog - Thomas Hasek
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| August 23
| Woodside/Bridal
| Sunny. High 27. Forecast cloudbase to be 8000 feet no inversion layers, fair thermal index with -2 degree lapse rate.
| 0% P.O.P.
| 9900 at 3000 feet (Light and Variable)
| Grouse Report - Glen Taylor got over 1 hour by the cliffs in smooth thermals. Justin and Thomas got over an hour landing at 6:00 PM. Up cycles at launch up to 7:00 PM. Woodside Report Woodside: pilots getting 45 minutes, not too strong, enjoyable flights Lower Bridal Report : light
lift, pilots getting 40 minute flights by staying in close.
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| August 22
| Woodside/Bridal
| Sunny. High 27. Forecast cloudbase to be 6600 feet (with an inversion layer at 2400 feet).
| 0% P.O.P.
| 9900 at 3000 feet (Light and Variable)
| Grouse Report - Brett got over 1 hour by the cliffs in light thermals, no one seemed to get above the Tram Station for long. Up cycles at launch up to 7:00 PM. Woodside Report Woodside: a couple of hangliders scratched around a bit. Lower Bridal Report : light
lift, Kevin Ault only pilot with enough patience to stay up 1 hour. no one
much above launch, light wind in Chilliwack - Rob Samplonius.
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| August 21
| Grouse
| Cloudy with sunny periods. Slight chance of morning showers. High 21. Forecast cloudbase to be 5600 feet.
| 30% P.O.P.
| 9900 at 3000 and 6000 feet (Light and Variable)
| Grouse Report - Ian Porter got over 1 hour by the cliffs waiting for us to join him. Justin, Thomm, Ian and Jim were the only pilots out today. North wind prevailing with punchy thermals at the cliffs.
Woodside Report Woodside, Alan D. 3+ hours, several others also flew, minimum reported 30
minutes, I flew from 6:30 to 7:15 still getting reasonable lift (2.3 m/s) and
almost 200 m over launch - Rob Samplonius
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| August 20
| Grouse
| Cloudy in the PM. High near 20.
| 40% P.O.P.
| 240 degrees @ 5 knots at 3000
| Grouse Report
25 flights were logged over the weekend. Good spot landing competition and fun attempts at getting in the air off the "Cut". Thanks to Bill Picha for all the hard work setting up the Meet. Next year we will have a rain weekend booked too! Woodside Report - Woodside and Lower Bridal, Woodside Alan D managed to scratch out an hour,
others 30 minutes, Lower Bridal extnded sleds of 14 minutes - Rob Samplonius
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| August 19
| Grouse
| Cloudy in the PM. High near 19.
| 70% P.O.P.
| 210 degrees @ 10 knots at 3000
| Only 3 pilots got off the Cut at Grouse, low cloudbase all day - Jim R.
Flew Lower Bridal after impromptu work party, 4:00-4:45pm, 150m over launch,
1.5m/s max, mostly overcast, some rain for last 15 miuntes, Chwk ATIS
140 @ 5knots - Rob Samplonius
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| August 18
| Grouse
| Cloudy in the PM. High near 19.
| 70% P.O.P.
| 210 degrees @ 15 knots at 3000, strong south winds all day at altitude
| Bill Picha is leading the Grouse Work Party today to get everything ready for the Grouse Fly In. We are repairing the retaining wall, cutting rebar that is hazardous and doing some work in the LZ. Call Bill at 273-3666 to find out the times. If it gets flyable we will finish off with a few flights.
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| August 17
| Whidbey or Blanchard
| Increasing Cloudiness in the PM. High near 22.
| 0% P.O.P., Cloudbase forecast to be 6000 feet with good thermal index
| 170 degrees @ 14 knots at 3000, strong south winds all day at altitude
| 3 pilots flew Woodside between 5:00 and 6:30pm, mainly cloudy, Chwk. ATIS
winds very irregular, mainly ridge lift, 200m over launch - Rob Samplonius
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| August 16
| Bridal
| Sunny in the PM. High near 24.
| 0% P.O.P., Cloudbase forecast to be 6000 feet with good thermal index
| light and variable at 3000, 200 @ 7 knots at 6000 feet
| Grouse was busy yesterday with many PG pilots. A few reported 45 minute flights and 4.5 m/s up, in thermals that would just quit and reappear a few minutes later. I saw the cu's forming and then just go away as fast as they formed. No Bridal reports received.
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| August 15
| Whidbey or Blanchard
| Sunny in the PM with AM cloudy periods. High near 20.
| 20% P.O.P.
| 240 @ 10 knots at 3000, too windy for Woodside, Bridal, or Grouse!
| Pilot reports are graciously accepted here!
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| August 14
| Grouse Mountain
| Sunny with morning cloudy periods. High near 21.
| 0% P.O.P.
| Light and Variable at 3000/6000 feet - Locally windy in the eastern Fraser Valley
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Your call on Grouse Monday was right on! Thomm and I went up at 1700 - Peter Graf was soaring the cliffs getting 300 - 500'
over. Launch conditions were ideal and the thermals were big. We boated around over Grouse Nest and even went back over
launch, but could not go further back as the lift was only working around the cliffs. After an hour I tried the bottom of the Cut, but
there was nothing there. Thomm flew over where the filming is happening west of Cap road, and reports that the whole area is
covered in white - they must be doing a winter scene - Thomas Hasek
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| August 13
| Bridal Falls
| Sunny with morning cloudy periods. High near 23.
| 0% P.O.P.
| 280 @ 8 knots at 3000 feet
| Woodside was excellent from 9:30 AM, until about 2:00 PM when it started getting windy on the ground, some brave PGers flew creating pylons for the Hgers. Several HGers went out and return to Agassiz Mountain, but I personally couldn't make it back so I landed next to the Tempo east of Woodside.
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| August 12
| Bridal Falls
| Sunny with morning cloudy periods. High near 24.
| 0% P.O.P.
| 280 @ 6 knots at 3000 feet
| Woodside was excellent with many PG pilots going east to Agassiz, Bridal was offering up 1.5 hour flights later in the day when Woodside got too windy. HGers got 3-4 hours at Woodside landing after 7:00 PM.
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| August 11
| Bridal Falls/Woodside
| Cloudy with afternoon sunny periods. High 21.
| 20% P.O.P.
| 240 @ 7 knots at 3000 feet
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Norm, Kelly and Bev flew Woodside today, Norm was ridge soaring for 1 hour, then went back up and Kelly and Bev flew. Bridal was socked in and then later had
very low cloud cover, very good potential cloud suck, didn't fly it, unless someone else flew it later on - Bev Lawlor
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| August 10
| Bridal Falls
| High 25
| Sunny, 0% P.O.P.
| 260 @ 7 knots at 3000 feet
| Flew lower Bridal 6:30-7:00pm, thick cloud 100m over launch, lift 2 m/s, smooth
mainly ridge lift, wind quite strong from 500 - 50m AGL (40kmh+?) CHWK ATIS
9 Knots (1 hr. prev. 14G19) - Rob Samplonius.
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| August 9
| Bridal Falls
| High 24
| Sunny, 0% P.O.P.
| 250 @ 6 knots
| 3 pilots at lower Bridal between 3:15 & 4:30 pm, some development at the summit of Cheam, lift 2-3 m/s, no inversion, lift stronger with elevation, light upper winds, max alt. 1000m ASL. CHWK ATIS 14 gusts to 20Knots!!! Landing a bit tricky - Rob Samplonius.
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| July 20
| Heading to Golden for the "Willi"
| High 27
| ??
| ??
| Golden was a fantastic time. First week was marred by rain and thunderstorms every second day, but the flying in between was fun (just ask Justin). Colleen and I flew the Willi Muller XC Challenge and Colleen came in 2nd in the Novice category (against the guys)! I only logged 2 flights for fifth place behind Ian Mitchell in first with many more kms. We bailed for the Nationals electing to fly Mara Lake on the way home. On the first day of the PG Nationals Chris Muller flew 245 kms! on a medium Bagheera (ask for a demo flight to see how this glider flies).
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| July 19
| Bridal
| High 29
| Sunny, 0% P.O.P.
| 270 @ 5 knots at 3000 feet
| Pilot reports are graciously accepted here!
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| July 18
| Bridal
| High 26
| Sunny, 0% P.O.P.
| 240 @ 5 knots at 3000 feet, 9900 at 6000 feet
| Grouse Report - Justin and Thomas got an hour later in the day. No Bridal Reports, but I suspect it was soarable most everywhere on the 18th.
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| July 17
| Bridal
| High 30
| Sunny
| 230 @ 5 knots at 3000 feet
| Glen Taylor phoned to say he had a rough flight at Bridal, not as comfortable as Sunday. Alan Dickey was high above the turbulance boating around when Glen left around 7:00 PM.
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| July 16
| Bridal
| High 26
| Sunny
| Light and Variable (9900)
| We arrived late at about 6:00 to see Allan D, Jacques and other over Cheam. Ivan said he climbed to 2000 meters above Archibald but couldn't go east to Cheam. I launched at 6:30 and climbed almost immediately to the Upper Launch over the rock slide by the decomissioned road. I was flying with the new Brauniger IQ-Sonic audio vario so don't know what altitude I reached. - Jim R.
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| July 15
| Bridal
| High 26
| Sunny
| 320 @ 6 knots at 3000 feet, this northerly flow indicates Bridal should be soarable all day. Grouse won't be good today unless the forecast is wrong!
| We flew Woodside all day, by 2:00 PM there were 20 PGs and 6 HGs over Woodside. Some new pilots had personal best flights getting over 1.5 hours. Ian Porter went to Seabird Island. We went to eat at the Wildcat Grill in Rosedale and saw several pilots get over an hour before joining us for a beer.
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| July 14
| Blanchard
| High 21
| Mainly Cloudy. Possibility of Thundershowers.
| 270 @ 10 knots at 3000 feet
| NOAA reports showed soarable conditions all day at Blanchard, no pilot reports in yet.
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| July 13
| Stay Home
| High 18
| Mainly cloudy. Periods of rain developing this morning. High 18. Maximum UV index 7.0 or high. Probability of precipitation 90 percent.
| 250 @ 13 knots at 3000 feet
| Pilot reports are graciously accepted here!
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| July 12
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 24
| Sunny with morning cloudy periods. High 23. Maximum UV index 7. 0 or high.
| 210 @ 7 knots at 3000 feet
| Several pilots flew Grouse and had a rock & roll flight at around 4:00 PM, and the last flight at 6:00 PM was a sled ride - Jim R. July 12, Lower Bridal: several PG flights, 1 to 2 hrs., lift moderately strong, last person landed after 7:00pm. Woodside: Norm and some others flew, winds strongish (8-10knots Chilliwack) - Rob Samplonius.
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| July 11
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 24
| Sunny all afternoon.
| Light and Variable at 3000 feet
| July 11, winds aloft forecast totally incorrect, wind gusting to 14 knots at
Chilliwack, HG flew Woodside for 45 minutes, no PG flights as far as I know - Rob Samplonius
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| July 10
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 22
| Risk of occasional morning showers.
| 240 degrees @ 8 knots at 3000 feet
| Woodside Report - Bev climbed to 1000 meters over Woodside and got "whacked" a few times, experiencing 30% collapses. She flew out while Norm stayed in the air for a while. Lots of folks out soaring on a Monday, landing at 8:00 pm. Grouse Report - peak launch was in cloud all day.
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| July 9
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 19
| Risk of late afternoon thunderstorms, occasional showers.
| 270 degrees @ 8 knots at 3000 feet
| We got sled-rides all day, longest flight was a tandem at 26 minutes. It never got too windy to train, but no soaring to brag about. We finished at 8:00 PM (a long day).
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| July 8
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 22
| Risk of late afternoon thunderstorms
| 240 degrees @ 7 knots at 3000 feet
| We flew until the wind was gusting at Chilliwack Airport 6 - 19 knots! We went to the Agriplex to ground handle for 2 hours, then headed home for dinner (it was still gusty at 9:00 pm).
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| July 7
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 23
| Cloudbase calculated at 6300 feet, moderate thermal index.
| 250 degrees @ 6 knots at 3000 feet
| Glen Taylor had a good ride at Bridal reporting 7+ m/s lift before heading out to land, Woodside reports indicated light bouyant air, no one stayed up for very long. Saturday could be better!
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| July 6
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 22
| Cloudbase calculated at 5500 feet, good thermal index.
| 250 degrees @ 7 knots at 3000 feet
| Woodside was only flown by Jeff Remple on his Shark (HG), PGers showed up at 1:00 PM and were blown out all day, high winds at launch and at the LZ. Grouse Report - cross at launch, trashy thermals getting torn up by strong west winds in the air, it seemed leeside on every ridge face, Capilano Lake was looking windy and it was bumpy over the LZ. Brett, Mark, Peter and Justin had close to 1 hr flights.
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| July 5
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 19
| Cloudbase calculated at 3600 feet, good thermal index if the sun comes through. Possible thunderstorms developing
| light and variable at 3000 feet
| Send in your flight reports, please.
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| July 4
| Grouse
| High 20
| Showers early in the day, cloudbase calculated at 4300 feet when high is achieved.
| 270 degrees @ 10 knots at 3000 feet
| Grouse never became visible thru the clouds on July 4th, no one flew - Jim. Rules of engagement for Grouse Guests are located at GMFT RULES written authorization must be obtained before flying Grouse as a guest.
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| July 3
| Woodside (Sorry we didn't update Monday's Site of the Day. I left the laptop at home. )
| High 20, Locally Windy
| Possible thunderstorm easterly sections all day
| 270 degrees @ 10 knots at 3000 feet
| We went to Woodside at 10:00 am and landed at 7:15 pm. At one point there were about 10 PGs and 4 HGs in the air over launch at one time in tight formation. Bev had a personal best heading out to the LZ, and catching a thermal over the bailout field which took her above launch on her new Fiesta (nice flying!).
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| July 2
| Stay Home!
| High 20, heavy rain, Locally Windy
| Possible thunderstorm easterly sections all day
| 250 degrees @ 9 knots at 3000 feet
| We lucked out and arrived at Woodside at 2:00 PM, Sunday. The skies opened up for 3 great soaring flights in smooth lift, we quit flying at 8:00 PM.
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| July 1
| Woodside/Bridal
| High 22
| Possible thunderstorm easterly sections late in the day
| 250 degrees @ 11 knots at 3000 feet
| We got a few flights off Woodside before it started gusting in the LZ, the HGers looked parked at times as we left.
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