FlyBC "Site of the Day Archive Page" - May/2003
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| May 31 | Bridal or Woodside | Cloudy with sunny periods. High 25 | 60% POP | 220° at 9 knots | -2.5°/1000' (unstable lapse rate) | 800 m 2500 ft. |
Woodside Report - what a great day at Woodside! It started out with low cloudbase and strong cycles at launch, so I took a new student tandem and we had a one hour flight climbing 500 feet above launch and soaring all over the mountain. Gerry L flew with us and had his first soaring flight! From that flight it just got better. The 3 new students we had + Daisy tested the new training hill and developed some great launch skills before heading up the mountain to fly. Kelly, Brent L, and I had a nice thermalling flight around 1:00 pm, before the students could fly. Then we got all the new students in the air. Most got 3 flights, and launch and landing conditions were excellent with some mild thermals for them to get extended flights. May 30
| Bridal or Woodside
| Increasing cloudiness. High 25
| 0% POP
| 220° at 5 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 800 m | 2500 ft.
Woodside Report - a group of HGers flew Woodside in "the strongest lift they have ever experienced at Woodside", all of the PGers styed on the ground as it was very windy. | Grouse Report - Went up to Grouse as the Valley was looking skunky. No truck yet up to launch so hiked up. Cross cycles from the West but East wind on the lake so I figured could be interesting layers on the way down. Nice lift over the cliffs then went over to the Cut to fly the bailout cliffs, nice but a bit punchy in places. After about 45 minutes headed over the city in very buoyant air, nice conditions in the LZ and got down just in time to avoid having to land in the lower LZ as a little league game was just getting started - Nicole May 29
| Woodside/Bridal
| Clearing. High 25
| 10% POP
| 220° at 5 knots
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 830 m | 2600 ft.
Woodside Report - Norm and I flew PGs while Jeff and Greg flew their HGs. No problem getting up and staying up and we flew for about an hour before heading out to fly Bridal, but we seemed to top out at 850 meters. Alex and Nicole showed up a bit later and flew tandem landing at Harrison Beach - Jim | Bridal Report - Derek, Mark, Alan, Ian, Nikolai, Kevin and a few others flew Bridal, they got higher than we did at Woodside. Smooth conditions overall. May 28
| Stay Home
| Increasing cloudiness with showers developing this afternoon. Windy at times. High 20
| 30% POP
| 220° at 13 knots
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 830 m | 2600 ft.
Windy in the valley. | May 27
| Bridal
| Cloudy with a few showers this morning. Afternoon sunny periods. High 23
| 30% POP
| 110° at 9 knots
| -2.6°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1630 m | 5300 ft.
no pireps, it looked like a good leeside day though?
| May 26
| Woodside
| A mix of sun and cloud. 30 percent chance of showers. High 20
| 30% POP
| 170° at 7 knots
| -2.7°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1900 m | 6300 ft.
Woodside Report - Norm flew 1.5 hours at Woodside, he had to work hard to get high as it was so clouded in. Allan and Jeremy showed up by the time it had broken open and they got a good soaring flight too. I sat at Eagle Ranch doing my homework :( - Bev
Bridal Report - Mark F, Derek, Igor, Jeremy, Trevor, Mark's buddies from Golden
and I were out at Bridal at 4:45pm. We flew around for 1 to 1.5 hours
in light lift. My maxs were 1205 m and 2.2 m/s. Me and Mark went to
Gloria and I then continued to Elk and back. Got my best height at Elk
and managed to glide back from Elk (7.5 km) without a single turn, to
get back to launch high enough to top-land. After top-landing and
talking with Jeremy for a couple minutes, relaunched and spiraled down
to the LZ, since it was shutting down anyway. The entire time there was
very little sun so our gliders didn't get any unnecessary UV exposure - Rob S | May 25
| Woodside
| A few showers ending late this morning then clearing. Fog patches early this morning. High 20
| 0% POP
| 240° at 5 knots
| -2.9°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1050 m | 3300 ft.
Woodside Report - despite some rain on the horizon there was a lot of activity at launch, but not many flights. It rained intermittently until 6:00 pm, and Kelly and Mark F bagged a sledder when the sun came out. Colleen and I couldn't get motivated to head to launch after flying all week at the Nationals, so we worked on the new training hill and swoop pond instead. Come and check it out next weekend - Jim
| May 24
| Coopers Launch
| Sunny periods this morning. Becoming cloudy this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 30 km/h in the afternoon. High 28
| 0% POP
| 240° at 5 knots
| -2.9°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
PG Nats Report - the last round was a valid task day with a 47 km task to Cherryville, but the conditions were not appropriate for that long a task. The day was undervalued by many bomb-outs and a few DNFs due to the short launch window. In the end Alex Raymont came in first overall with Graeme Herring in second place, Will Gadd in third place, and Nicole getting top woman and fourth overall! | Lars flew with us at Cooper's later in the day and had a good hour+ flight skying out some locals, Robin had a great flight for almost 2 hours. I flew the last flight after Lars and top-landed to drive Lars' truck down. Lots of top-landings in super soarable conditions right 'til 6:00 pm. May 23
| Coopers Launch
| A mix of sun and cloud. High 24
| 0% POP
| 200° at 5 knots
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
PG Nats Report - a task was called for a 47 km triangle, and it proved a bit daunting for some. The early starters could barely maintain and after 5-6 hit the bomb-out field Mark asked the field if they agreed to a second task, provided no one who launched got past 4 kms (the bomb-out distance). Everyone launched and the impatient ones were on the ground while the late launchers found enough to keep them in the air. Nicole led the late launchers down to Lumby Ridge and from there they made the forst three turnpoints before heading east to Mt Cherry. Most were on the ground below Rawlings Cliff, but at least 4-5 made it past Saddle Mtn. I believe Alex Raymont is still #1. WCSC pilots (at least Graham, Nicole and Alex) are doing very well in this competition flying consistent rounds.
| May 22
| Coopers/Vernon Mtn.
| Cloudy a few showers. High 19
| 60% POP
| 240° at 11 knots
| -2.3°/1000' | (stable lapse rate) 2550 m | 7900 ft.
Day off from the Nats. A bit of rain but the forecast high winds never materialized as we went shopping. There was a great video night later with free beer and popcorn, thanks Mark!
| May 21
| Coopers/Vernon Mtn.
| Cloudy with sunny periods. 30 percent chance of afternoon showers. High 19
| 30% POP
| 240° at 9 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2750 m | 8000 ft.
PG Nats Report - a good day overall. Colleen got us all going by climbing out immediately inspiring the hot shots. Most pilots made it out of the bombout zone starting from Vernon Mtn. to Lumby Ridge, then over to Coopers Launch, back to Lumby Ridge then into Randy's LZ. Unfortunately only Will Gadd made goal in 1:36. The rest of us dropped out along the way. Only provisional results are up at this point. No mayhem.
| Fraser Valley Report - rain most of the day, and the excavating is complete. Thanks to Kelly for seeding the bare ground so it will be ready in a few weeks! The next project is to remove the trees on the North Boundary to improve the odds of making the Eagle Ranch LZ in high winds, we are sharpening the saw, Rob. May 20
| Coopers/Vernon Mtn.
| Cloudy with sunny periods. 30 percent chance of afternoon showers. High 19
| 30% POP
| 210° at 9 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2750 m | 8000 ft.
PG Nationals Report - Task was called for Vernon Mtn. to Saddle Mtn. to Randy's. Cloudy skies with not much hope of thermals as many pilots launched and sidehill landed to hike back for another flight (as allowed in comp rules as long as you are within the start window). | Tom McCune from Seattle WA, Graham H. and Colleen went for it and some got the Saddle turnpoint, Colleen didn't but still placed 4th. Alex Raymont is in first place on Day 3, after two tasks. Fraser Valley Report - rain most of the day, but it didn't stop the excavator creating the new Eagle Ranch training hill and Swoop Pond. It looked fabulous last night after only one day of work. And the pond is filling up naturally, due to the high water table this spring. May 19
| Coopers/Vernon Mtn.
| Cloudy with sunny periods. High 18
| 40% POP
| 310° at 10 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2100 m | 6500 ft.
Lumby Mayhem Report - The first task day of the comps started early with a 10:00 am pilots meeting on Cooper's. As the meeting ended, two free-flyer PGers had a mid-air, tangling up with only one getting her reserve out before they fell into the trees below launch. All ended well with a few scrapes and a torn glider. | Then the comp window opened and the race was on: Coopers to Lumby Ridge, back to Coopers before heading to Cherryville for 35.8 kms. Norm was free flying and figured out the task from the competitors tracks and flew most of the course. Mid flight CJ from WA state had to throw her reserve, and she landed in a logging slash uninjured with Thayer H from Seattle landing beside her to check if she was okay. I got low on Lumby Ridge, but made it out of there to just get back to the Cooper Start turnpoint before the shade hit. I was most amazed by Jim Orava's low save on the Saddle, way below me on the other side of Lumby and he made it pretty close to goal. Local pilots Nicole and Alex both made goal, with Alex having a wild ride right down to landing on Hwy 6 with Mark D stopping traffic in a gust front! May 18
| Coopers/Vernon Mtn.
| Cloudy with sunny periods. High 18
| 40% POP
| 310° at 10 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2100 m | 6500 ft.
The weather was too strong to fly until later in the day, we sat through hail storms, rain and high winds all day.
| May 17
| Savona
| Cloudy with sunny periods. Local hail. Risk of a thundershower. Snow level 1100 metres. High 13
| 60% POP
| 330° at 6 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2100 m | 6500 ft.
I had three new students at Savona and we flew the Toilet Bowel until 2:00 pm when a huge cell came over us and dumped hail and rain. We met up with Norm, Frank and Harold who chased from Coopers, to Vernon Mtn, to King Eddie to Mara and got skunked everywhere. Late at night we saw a few PGers fly off the Saddle at Lumby landing at the party before dark.
| May 16
| Bridal later?
| Cloudy with sunny periods. A few showers with risk of thundershowers and small hail. High 12
| 40% POP
| 260° at 9 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1400 m | 4500 ft.
Woodside Report - when we arrived at 5:30 pm at Eagle Ranch, the cycles were coming in at launch at 10-15 km/hr. Wind on the ground was light and there was sun on the mountain. I had to pack for the Nationals so I worked instead of flying. Where was everyone?
| May 15
| Stay Home
| A few showers. Windy at times. High 14
| 100% POP
| 260° at 19 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
No pireps, Allan said it was wet and windy.
| May 14
| Bridal
| A few showers. Windy at times. High 15
| 40% POP
| 260° at 19 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
It looked like a dynamic day if you could avoid the rain! No pireps yet.
| May 13
| Bridal/Woodside
| A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches this morning. 40 percent chance of showers. High 19
| 40% POP
| 270° at 7 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
Woodside Report - spies get lonely, so Derek K flew Woodside to keep me company! Actually Andy and Byron kept me company for a few flights in the morning in smooth lift, before Derek joined Kim Staus (HGer) for an hour or so. Allan D flew and hated the air and landed before heading to Bridal.
| Bridal Report - Rob, Mark, Monica, Jim, Colleen, Derek, Nikolai and possbily a few others flew Bridal. We arrived late and managed 45 minutes. Smooth air, but not much lift. May 12
| Bridal/Woodside
| A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches this morning. 40 percent chance of showers. High 19
| 40% POP
| 270° at 7 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
Bridal Report - ratty air at Bridal!
| May 11
| Bridal/Woodside
| Cloudy with sunny periods. 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon with risk of thundershowers. High 21.
| 30% POP
| 300° at 15 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2000 m | 6300 ft.
Woodside Report - a lot of airtime at Woodside starting around 9:30 am, Colleen was soaring early and had to land to guide in Byron for his first flight after three tandems. Byron managed to circle in some nice smooth lift on his first solo flight.
After that HGs and PGs alike were getting 1-2 hour flights until about 3:30 pm, when it started getting strong at launch and landing.
It was definitely Kevin A's day. First he flew for about an hour before heading over the back towards Harrison Beach. Then he headed to Bridal with a group and flew there getting trashed in the landing with a 30% collapse before softly touching down, then he headed back to Woodside where he flew straight out clinbing to 1500 meters before flying into Chilliwack on an upwind glide! I guess he likes his new Vulcan!
| May 10
| Bridal/Woodside
| Cloudy with sunny periods. 40 percent chance of showers late this afternoon. Fog patches early this morning. High 19
| 40% POP
| 290° at 7 knots
| -2.5°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1800 m | 5800 ft.
Fraser Valley Report - pilots flew Woodside and Bridal with lots of lift all day.
| May 9
| Bridal/Woodside
| Cloudy with sunny periods at first then a mix of sun and cloud. High 19°
| 40% POP
| 310° at 6 knots
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1900 m | 6150 ft.
Woodside Report - Thomm and Andy flew around 1:00 pm and both soared for a while, the air was a bit choppy and disorganized. Norm showed up for a short flight before work, so Bev drove us up so I could take Byron for a tandem. Norm launched after Martin and Mia on HGs, and everyone went up fast. It was gusty on launch >30 km at times, so we launched in a lull and climbed out pretty fast for "a couple of chunky monkeys" on the tandem. After about an hour of getting punched around neaar cloudbase, it was too rough to let Byron try the controls so we flew out over the flats going up all the way to the Ranch. We found some sink over the river and landed in gusty conditions. Norm followed us in, making up excuse #39 for being late.
| Bridal Report - I heard Allan D launch and report condition reports continuously as the "usual gang" arrived at the LZ and Launch. As we drove towards Bridal at 4:00 pm, there was thunder in the clouds near Woodside. As we approached the Agassiz Bridge the wind was gusting east at 25 km+, but on the south side it was west at 25 km+. Perhaps we should warn Allan, but we were having trouble contacting cause there was too much traffic. As we arrived at the GOlf Course, Allan was on the ground packed up so he missed the action but did log 50 minutes in smooth lift everywhere he flew (he landed because he instinctively knew something was happening because the sky turned black). We headed back to Eagle Ranch and the clouds released buckets of rain and hail (as forecast). No one flew after Allan at Bridal. May 8
| Bridal/Woodside
| A mix of sun and cloud. High 18°
| 0% POP
| 310° at 13 knots
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1800 m | 5900 ft.
Woodside Report - Norm and Jack flew Woodside around 1:00 pm, both got above launch and were having nice flights when Norm hit some weird air that ruffled his wing, just before it started shutting down. Andy flew after 2:30 pm and had lots of lift but had to land to take his daughter to baseball.
| Bridal Report - Colleen and I headed over to Bridal after 5:00, and watched gliders going up everywhere. Based on the radio communications at least 10 pilots in the air; some heading to Elk, Gloria, some east to Cheam. We launched at about 5:30 pm and it took a few minutes to work out of the bowl but once established in climbs we were over the Saddle quickly. The air was pretty smooth for the strength of thermals. I joined Kevin A and Allan west of Upper Launch for a while and a strange cloud phenomonon was occurring - multiple cloudbases. I was climbing way above Upper Launch and encountered cloudbase so I headed east and caught another thermal that Allan was in that went almost 300 meters higher before hitting that base. Ian J, Robin, Alex, Nikolai and I top-landed to drive the fleet of cars down. Alex relaunched because Klaus hiked up to drive Brad's truck down (Brad arrived late and went stright up to Cheam without turning - it just kept thermalling past 8:00 pm). Nicole landed somewhere east near Laidlaw, everyone else did "out-and-returns" on their flights. Flight times varied from 2 hours for late launchers, to four hours for early flyers! May 7
| Bridal/Woodside
| Cloudy with sunny periods. 60 percent chance of showers. High 15°
| 60% POP
| light and variable
| -3.1°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 2100 m | 6500 ft.
Woodside Report - Rob, Colleen, Jim and Chris T flew Woodside. Lots of sink, ratty thermals down low. Rob launched and caught something that took him over launch where he said it was quite strong cloud suck, but once below launch it was sinky. We heard Derek and John flying Bridal in east winds maintaining.
| May 6
| Bridal/Woodside
| A mix of sun and cloud. 60 percent chance of morning showers over eastern sections. High 16°
| 60% POP
| 280° at 11 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1723 m | 5600 ft.
Woodside Report - everyone was soaring from 11:00 am at Woodside. Reto and Keith flew to Ruby Creek after touchingcloudbase over the towers. Jack made his first trip over the back at Woodside, but headed directly to Agassiz to avoid the Prison CYR which yielded rotor for some bumpy moments.
| Bridal Report - the usual group was flying Bridal. We arrived late around 5:00 pm, and launch conditions were straight in and strong. Ed from Kamloops launched and went straight up. I could see Derek K and Kevin A over Cheam, Allan flew from Cheam to Elk several times, Rob S made it halfway to Hope and back. In the end I witnessed four top landings to manage the retrievals; Kevin A, Rob S, Nicole, Ian J (who relaunched to fly down) - thanks Nicole for driving the Suburban down! Ed landed last after 8:00 pm with a big grin. May 5
| Blanchard/Whidbey
| Cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers. High 14°
| 40% POP
| 290° at 9 knots
| -3.2°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 980 m | 3300 ft.
Bridal Report - on a rare day, Colleen gets a chance to fly Bridal! Colleen and Lucille D flew Bridal later in the day getting 1:30 and 0:50 respectively. Colleen said there was a wierd gust front that started bouncing her around as she approached the swamp. She landed in the Driving Range after getting tossed around, then it was smooth for Lucille. Alex R and Ian J flew and Ian top-landed to drive the Suburban down, thanks Ian!
| Bridal Report #2 -Got to Bridal to east winds so we waited until it turned inflow before going up. Lucille from Edmonton was visiting and arrived with Colleen. Up on launch nice cycles so we all launched. Lift was spotty at first; Rob S. headed towards Elk and landed below Gloria and got a ride back to Bridal with Brad H. The lift got good later on and a fair bit of west wind up high; Alan and I headed to Elk and I ridge-soared the SW face of that mountain for a bit then decided to head back as it was getting cold. Nice and smooth conditions all over the place! Springtime!!! - Nicole May 4
| Blanchard/Whidbey
| Strait of Juan de Fuca: | Winds variable 5 to 15 knots rising to westerly 20 this morning And to westerly 25 to gales 35 in the afternoon. Winds easing to West 20 overnight. A few showers today then cloudy periods. High 12° 40% POP
| 290° at 17 knots
| -2.6°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 680 m | 2300 ft.
Colleen and Kelly logged a few sledders.
| May 3
| Woodside
| A few clouds at first. Increasing cloudiness overnight. Windy at times. High 15°
| 60% POP
| 200° at 12 knots
| -3.0°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 680 m | 2300 ft.
Fraser Valley Report - no pireps, but it looked windy from the NOAA report. Perhaps a few flights from Bridal but Woodside looked blown out - Jim
| May 2
| Bridal
| Cloudy with sunny periods. High 15°
| 30% POP
| 240° at 5 knots
| -2.4°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1400 m | 4600 ft.
Bridal Report - We all met at Bridal LZ but it was skunked out so we headed to Woodside. Up on launch it was very windy and 3 HG's in the air not moving very fast, so we headed back to Bridal where it had cleared off. Carl and Chris H. were in the air when we arrived so we all launched. Nice lift around the knob and the bowl then a sinky cycle came through and flushed some pilots; some pilots top-landed to wait it out. The lift got nice again after about 15 minutes and we got back above launch and back up to Saddle height. End of the day Rob S. and I top-landed to drive the trucks down - Nicole
| Pemberton Report - Hey Jim, just back from Pemberton and had a great day on Friday. East conditions in the morning made for some short flights then Jim Orava and I headed over to the east launch above Mt Currie and flew for about half an hour before landing at Mario’s for some burgers. The evening went off with crazy lift everywhere. Jim, Corine, Alister, Mel, Mike Miller, the Russians and I all got high – Jim almost reached 10000 feet. Just before landing around 8:20 pm a 30kph valley wind kicked in and made things interesting !! A great day and Pemberton flying is definitely on ! - Derek Thomas Niagara Falls Report - rained all morning, but I was in meetings so it didn't matter. Later in the day some nice CUs formed, but no wing or launch method handy. I can see a Paramotor would come in handy down here (probably a Top80 powered unit that you could shut off and then start thermalling) - Jim May 1
| Lil Nick/Bridal
| Becoming sunny this afternoon. Locally windy in the valley. High 18°
| 0% POP
| 290° at 14 knots
| -2.4°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1400 m | 4600 ft.
Grouse Report - Grouse looked good so went up there and launched from the Cut (a bit unnerving as the slope angle is so shallow and have to clear those trees at the bottom!). Big lift out front and very spring-like conditions! Peter and Justin showed up later and joined me, and we flew around back and forth between the tramline and the bailout cliffs; Peter ventured back towards Crown but found it a bit sinky so came back. We stayed in the air until it mellowed out and nice boating over the LZ at the end of the day. 2.5 hours and excellent springtime flying! - Nicole
| Dallas Road (Victoria) Report - You missed some great flying at Dallas again. On for hours yesterday, from noon right till dark. Not quite strong enough to cross the point easily, but enough to fly the first 700 meters of the ridge. A lot of wings in the air - Bruce McGuigan April 30
| Bridal/Woodside/Grouse
| Cloudy with sunny periods and 60 percent chance of afternoon showers. High 18°
| 60% POP
| light and variable
| -2.8°/1000' | (unstable lapse rate) 1500 m | 4700 ft.
Bridal Report - About the same weather as yesterday, but way less windy, so a bunch of us met at Bridal LZ. The windsock was showing big cycles, and we were all soon in the air. The air was kind of rough down low around launch; smoothed out as you got higher. Lots of lift in the bowl and no problems getting to Gloria; Rob S. went to Elk and later on top-landed to drive down. Carl hiked up and joined us for a short flight and we all landed around 7-7:30pm - Nicole
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April 2003 Site of the Day archives rain for 28 of 30 April days, but we managed to get a few flights in between showers. Even the golfers were complaining!
March 2003 Site of the Day archives some high spring flights in early March, but not a great weather month. Still no HPAC Insurance!
February 2003 Site of the Day archives some nice long spring flights in late February. HPAC Insurance expired on Feb 14, so many pilots stayed home instead of getting USHGA coverage.
January 2003 Site of the Day archives lots of rain all month in BC so we bailed and headed to Tapalpa Mexico for three weeks. Norm and Lucille had a great XC flight the first day we arrived.
December 2002 Site of the Day archives lots of rain all month.
November 2002 Site of the Day archives not a great flying month, lots of rain in the beginning and then super stable and inverted for the balance of the month. Even the Savona Road Trip wasn't that great. Looking forward to Mexico!
October 2002 Site of the Day archives Still soarable some days, great fun at the Women's Fly In 2002 in Chelan. Allan logged 15 hours and only flew a few days. Most of the students are ready for signoff soon to get ready for Mexico trips!
September 2002 Site of the Day archives Still soarable most everyday! Some scary incidents at Woodside. Fun flying at Ashcroft.
August 2002 Site of the Day archives More spring-like days with super lapse rates, great fun up-country at Revelstoke and Mara, with some good XCs for all.
July 2002 Site of the Day archives Some spring-like days with super lapse rates, but still rather wet at times.
June 2002 Site of the Day archives another rainy and windy month with great lapse rates, some great flights at Bridal with some getting above Cheam Peak. The Clup Cup was nearly rained out but they got one valid task in on Sunday June 30.
May 2002 Site of the Day archives an extremely rainy month with the more spring mayhem, another reserve deployment at Lil Nick and a pilot crashed at the top of Deroche Mountain, uninjured but with a ripped glider and long hike down the mountain. Colleen placed 5th place at the Canadian PG Nationals in rainy Lumby!
April 2002 Site of the Day archives a rainy month with the usual spring mayhem, one reserve deployment at Woodside and a pilot hit a parked car at Bridal LZ, fracturing his leg.
March 2002 Site of the Day archives a few great days days with lots of snow and rain mixed in.
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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