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| April 1 | Woodside | sunny with cloudy periods | 30% POP | light and variable | -3.0°/1000' (unstable lapse rate) |
FlyBC's Paragliding School is back bigger and better in 2002!, go to FlyBC's Eagle Ranch Page for more aerial shots taken by Colleen on Sunday Feb 10, 2002. UP/APCO Demo Days April 27-28, with Chris Muller as guest pilot. Eagle Ranch Grand Opening has been planned for May 11-12, 2002. APCO Presta (all new DHV 1-2 glider) - with closed valve system new for 2002! New Presta 2002 Pictures on the January 2002 Site of the Day archives page. March 31
| Whidbey
| rainy periods possible
| 40% POP
| 270° at 19 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Woodside Report - rain all day. | Whidbey Report - no rain but mostly light winds despite Gale Warning. March 30
| Woodside, tow rig testing at Eagle Ranch
| light rain possible at times, locally windy?
| 40% POP
| 240° at 10 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Eagle Ranc h Report - Tow testing completed, Jeremy had 6 tows in the past few days. Tows to 300 feet possible in light winds. No lockouts - Jim | Woodside Report - Jon Orders and Charles Mathieson flew HGs for 2 hours in/through/under/above/around/beside/in front/behind cloud banks between 2500' and 4000' ASL at Woodside. Fantastic flight super smooth super relaxing. Included ridge soaring the windward side of the clouds - Charles Mathieson Pine Mountain, OR Report - Norm called last night from Oregon, he is having a great time so far sunny and flyable he flew at Pine Mountain, they had to hike a ways as there is still snow there, but Norm was the first to launch and the last to land totaling 3 hours soaring. He will be coming home with a big grin on his face - Bev March 29
| Woodside, tow rig testing at Eagle Ranch
| light rain possible at times
| 40% POP
| 230° at 10 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Rain all day, no tow testing occurred. | March 28
| Woodside, tow rig testing at Eagle Ranch
| light rain possible
| 40% POP
| 270° at 12 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
The ACME ParaWinch works! Jack signed up as our tow dummy and had 5 good tows with the last one getting above the tall trees. No lockouts or scary experiences. More towing on Friday as conditions improve. |  Photo by Dan Keen March 27
| Stay Home, or maybe Woodside mid day
| rain possible
| 50% POP
| 220° at 23 knots, may be lighter?
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Rain, wind and ugly all day | March 26
| Stay Home, or maybe Whidbey earlier
| High 9°, locally windy in the PM
| 50% POP
| 210° at 26 knots!
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Windy Windy Windy! | March 25
| Woodside
| Sunny later! High 13°
| 30% POP
| 190° at 6 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Woodside Report - I arrived at Eagle Ranch to do some work and wait for Ian J, Rob P, Martina and Nicole. Alan and Norm were in the air above launch, but as we arrived at launch they were both on the deck in Riverside (Alan literally on a sandbar at the riverside, cause he went further east following an eagle). | Rob S launched first and was quickly in the Riverside LZ. Then it started to get better and 4 HGers launched in sequence, all getting high. So the race was on, I launched after the hangs on a demo Makalu and had to scratch around below launch until I caught some lift to get me UP. It was mostly ridge soaring with an occasional turn until about 4:15 pm when it turned on, good lift took me to 1350 meters back at the clearcut, but it was too shaded at Agassiz Mountain to venture east. I moved back to the front of the mountain and made a few attempts at top-landing but it was too strong, so I went ridge soaring with everyone else, and then when it got light I went straight in and landed to retrieve Robs truck. I was followed in by Glen T, late for dinner, with a sideways approach from the north. Total pilots: 6 HGers, 10 PGers, lots of airtime, not too rough in the air - Jim Vancouver Island Report - Dallas was on again, for about 40 minutes, right at sunset. Too bad for the pilots that hung around all day waiting for th 9 k wind to turn into something. I got a nice flight in moderately strong cross wind for 1/2 an hour. It's a nice way to end a day. Still smiling - Brucie McG. March 24
| Woodside
| Sunny! High 13°
| 20% POP
| 290° at 12 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Woodside Report - a bit more challenging until later in the day, except for Barry B who was high above launch for several hours. Later flights allowed for ridge soaring up to 500 feet above launch in smooth air. | March 23
| Woodside
| Sunny! High 13°
| 30% POP
| 290° at 12 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Woodside Report . . . Oh Yeah BABY! 3+ hours of strong thermal flying lots of collapses! I lost 70% of the Booster I was flying wild rides for everyone. Alan D, Ian J and I toplanded to retrieve (after 45 approaches according to Ian J, I tried to run him down on final) - Jim
| March 22
| Sumas
| Sunny! Locally windy this morning.
| 20% POP
| 120° at 11 knots
| -1.5°/1000' | (very stable lapse rate)
Woodside Report - some pilots seen doing sledders into the Crash Pad, light winds inthe Eagle LZ. Winch testing completed with static weights, looking for volunteers. | March 21
| Sumas
| Sunny! Locally windy this morning.
| 20% POP
| 120° at 11 knots
| -1.5°/1000' | (very stable lapse rate)
It was windy and large snow drifts are all over the Fraser Valley, 6 feet of snow on Woodside according to the loggers.
| March 20
| Stay Home!
| Easterly outflow wind 40 gusting to 60 km/h giving locally reduced visibility in blowing snow. Mainly cloudy. High minus 1 to minus 3. Windchill minus 10.
| 20% POP
| 090° at 22 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Strong east winds thru to Vancouver, many cars in the ditch on Hwy 1 due to poor visibility - Jim | March 19
| Stay Home!
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Snow. Local accumulations 5 to 10 centimetres
| 90% POP
| 260° at 12 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Talk of a road trip to San Diego surfaced last night, everyone is going stir-crazy with the weather. | New guidelines for Woodside Mountain were tabled last night at the WCSC Meeting, thanks go to the directors and non-directors for all the hard work. - Jim March 18
| Stay Home!
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Snow. Local accumulations 5 to 10 centimetre. Gusty outflow wind to 30 km/h producing blowing snow and giving reduced visibility. High plus 3.
| 90% POP
| 160° at 30 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
I was pulling blackberries in the snow for 8 hours, and it was never flyable at Woodside - Jim | March 17
| Eagle Ranch (work party)
| Weather Network says "Sunny in the PM!", but with vicious North Winds to 70 km/hr!
| 40% POP
| 090° at 24 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Excellent Progress made at Eagle Ranch clearing the trees on the approach path, thanks to everyone who lent a hand. Stay tuned for the huge bonfire later this year, we will supply the marshmallows. | Island Gloat Report - Leeside thermalling at Malahat. Malahat was on in a huge way on Sunday. Claudio and I were the only one to fly with me losing the lift and heading to the beach after about 25 minutes in light thermals. Coming out from the Mountain in big sink, Claudio made a low-ish save almost directly over the beach at about 150 meters. The sun came out, thermals started pumping and he and eventually climbed to the limit and flew all over the mountain for an hour and a half - Brucie McG March 16
| Eagle Ranch (work party)
| Weather Network says "Sunny in the PM!"
| 40% POP
| 040° at 13 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Work Party went very well thanks to Colleen, Rob, Norm and Roman. I supervised from the excavator - Jim
| March 15
| Stay Home
| showers and SNOW
| 90% POP
| 240° at 14 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
It was flyable most of the day today! See the link above for the web cam images from later today. It only rained later in the day, otherwise cloudy and no wind at Woodside all day! Weird as it snowed in Coquitlam all day - Jim
| March 14
| Woodside (maybe)
| Cloudy with a few showers. High 7.
| 20% POP
| 260° at 12 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
It was flyable when I arrived at Eagle Ranch yesterday afternoon, lots of new snow on the mountain - Jim
| March 13
| Stay Home
| Cloudy with a few showers mainly in the morning. Risk of a thundershower. Locally windy. High 8.
| 50% POP
| 290° at 10 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Heavy rain and south winds all day, looked like Whidbey might have worked - Jim
| March 12
| Stay Home
| Mainly cloudy with showers. Risk of a thundershower. Locally windy. High 10.
| 70% POP
| 210° at 28 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Rain Rain GO AWAY, come back another day!
| March 11
| Whidbey (long shot)
| gale warning in effect, switching to 15 knot westerlies in the PM
| 50% POP
| 240° at 24 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Whidbey Report - Whidbey NOAA reported a 2 hour soarable period with winds westerly from 3-5 PM, no pireps however - Jim
| March 10
| stay home
| locally windy, flurries, dress warm
| 20% POP
| 230° at 19 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Great day for painting inside, looks like a lot of new snow fell on Woodside launch over the weekend, but the logging trucks were still hauling - Jim
| March 9
| stay home
| east outflow winds, flurries, dress warm
| 20% POP
| 140° at 26 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (stable lapse rate)
Forecast was right on! Snow,rain and wind ALL DAY!
| March 8
| stay home, revised forecast
| vicious east outflow winds, high cloud with flurries, dress warm
| 20% POP
| 220° at 9 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
It snowed all day at Woodside, lots of cars in the ditch!
| March 7
| STAY HOME!
| Cloudy with flurries. Local snowfall accumulations 1 to 3
centimetres. East wind 20 to 40 km/h this morning easing near midday.
High minus 3 to plus 1. Local windchill minus 15 this morning.
| 50% POP
| 290° at 9 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (stable lapse rate)
It was so windy we lost both windsocks in the Eagle Ranch LZ. One was found in the orchard, still looking for the large red one - Jim
| March 6
| stay home
| Winds northeasterly 20 to 30 knots easing to 10 to 20 this afternoon.
A few cloudy periods. A chance of flurries.
Outlook. Moderate east to northeast winds.
| 50% POP
| 110° at 11 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Damn cold!
| March 5
| Woodside or stay home
| showers tapering in the PM
| 50% POP
| 300° at 7 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate)
Woodside Report - it started snowing around noon and it was bitterly cold due to strong outflow winds, good day to work inside- Jim | Malahat/VanIsle Report - Malahat was on big time. As long as you wanted, as far down the western side of Saanich inlet as you were willing to go. 4 pilots had their fill. Amir probably got skypig award, but he was flying with electric gloves. Thanks for your soaring suggestions on the weekend Jim. They were very helpful. I was able to hook some good stuff and stay up near the mountain for quite a while. When a few flakes of snow showed up, I headed for landing, and ended up ridge soaring over the abandoned cement factory at 300 meters ASL for as long as I wanted. The possibility that I might actually have to lose fingers to frostbite was the only thing that drove me to the LZ - Bruce McGuigan March 4
| Woodside or stay home
| rain developing
| 60% POP
| 230° at 13 knots
| -2.0°/1000' | (standard lapse rate)
Woodside Report - Bruce McG and I flew Woodside at 3:30 pm and managed a sledder just as it started to rain. Nice launching conditions and light west wind in Eagle Ranch LZ.
| March 2-3
| Woodside/Eagle Ranch
| sunny
| 0% POP
| light and variable, north above 6000'
| -3.0°/1000' | (very unstable lapse rate)
Woodside/Eagle Report - first flights into Eagle Ranch on Saturday and Sunday. We removed the fence in the middle of the field (E-W direction) and removed the blackberry bushes that were in the fence running N-S. Still lots to remove, but it is much cleaner for landing. Some turbulence noted on Sunday when it got windy around 5:00 pm, but no worse than the old LZ in strong South winds. | Thanks to everyone who helped! It made the work go so much faster. Saturday was busy at launch with 20+ PGers and 8 or so Hgers, also busy in the air as everyone worked the 5 or 6 thermals near launch. Sunday was even busier, with Ian J claiming SkyPig honours with 3.5 hrs before landing. Some interesting top landings? noted on Sunday. March 1
| Woodside
| sunny
| 0% POP
| light and variable
| -3.0°/1000' | (very unstable lapse rate)
Grouse Report - one lone pilot seen soaring above Grouse on light turquoise wing, not identified.
| February 28
| Sumas in the AM, then Woodside in the PM
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 300° at 8 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (very unstable lapse rate)
Woodside Report - as posted by Martin Henry, it was leeside at Woodside. One exciting flight to the Crash Pad by Rob S convinced others to not fly. Thanks for coming down to unload our U Haul! As Ian Porter said " Looks like you have enough projects to keep you busy for the next 5 years!". Okay . . . so the Ranch needs a little paint - Jim
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February 2002 Site of the Day archives two epic days already (4.5 hours and 2.5 hours!).
January 2002 Site of the Day archives Mexico vacation shots, some local flying but it was wet on the coast.
December 2001 Site of the Day archives pretty stable locally, wettest December on record, some good days sprinkled thru the month.
November 2001 Site of the Day archives pretty stable locally, had some good days at Woodside +2 hours, lots of rain later in the month.
October 2001 Site of the Day archives pretty stable locally, but great flying at Chelan at the Women's Fly In.
September 2001 Site of the Day archives starting to get pretty stable, more sled rides forecast for October.
Aug 2001 Site of the Day archives Mara, Bridal, till some great flights locally
July 2001 Site of the Day archives Road Trip Month, Golden, Mara, points east!
June 2001 Site of the Day archives Great Month, 3 hours of airtime for some pilots every time they flew Bridal Lower! Some getting up to 6 hours in a single flight!
May 2001 Site of the Day archives Unstable Month, 2-3 hours of airtime for some pilots every time they flew Bridal Lower!
April 2001 Site of the Day archives Rainy Month, not as much airtime for some pilots
March 2001 Site of the Day archives Spring has Sprung!
February 2001 Site of the Day archives Spring is in the Air!
January 2001 Site of the Day archives - Mexico Flying Trip
December 2000 Site of the Day archives
November 2000 Site of the Day archives (great month for airtime!)
October 2000 Site of the Day archives
September 2000 Site of the Day archives
July - August 2000 Site of the Day archives
June 2000 Site of the Day archives
March - May 2000 Site of the Day archives
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