| 02/06/16 | 02/07/16 | 02/08/16 | |
| Saturday | Sunday | Monday | |
| Dog (Glenoma,Wa) | SW 2-5 Cloudy | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Bingen (near Hood River,OR) | 6-15 WSW wind died down to 3-5 WSW in the late afternoon | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Blanchard (Edison, Wa) | 8-15 south in the morning with chance of rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Eagle Butte (near Kennewich,WA) | 15-20 WSW | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Cliffside (Rufus, OR) | Wrong wind direction or Rain | 5-8 East some models say 8-10 | 5-8 East some models say 10-15 Sunny |
| Saddle Mt (Mattawa, WA) | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Light NNE 5mph.atGround level/ Mostly Cloudy | Light NNE 5mph.atGround level/ Mostly Cloudy |
| Tiger Mt (Issaquah, Wa) | 5-12 south | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Peterson (Lebanon, OR) | 5-8 SE in the morning and turn more ESE (Might be too east in the afternoon | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Bremer (10miles west of Morton,WA) | 3-6 South Cloudy. Road to launch may still have a lot of snow | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
| Sollie Smith (Tillamook, OR) | Some models say light ESE and some say 5-8 S Mostly cloudy. | Wrong wind direction or Rain | Wrong wind direction or Rain |
Friday, February 5, 2016
Where to fly this weekend
Thursday, February 4, 2016
2 flights 2 hrs air time at Lower Peterson 2/4/16
Gabe, Peter (from Corvallis) and I had great flights at Lower Peterson's today. I arrived launch at 10:00am alone and the winds were out of the south blowing 15-20mph with sunny skies. It was in perfect soaring condition, but since I had to follow the Peterson's rule of, "No Flying Alone" I watched a movie in my car while waiting for Gabe's arrival. I started to set up around 12pm. The conditions remained the same with birds soaring above launch. Gabe and Peter showed up at 12:30pm so I launched. The conditions then got a bit strong at launch (20-25 mph), but I was able to managed without wire assistance. I climbed 1,500ft above lower launch quickly to the upper launch towers with the air being smooth like flying at the coast. I flew for almost 2 hrs and decided to top land. Peter and Gabe top landed shortly after me. It was about 20 mph winds when the 3 of us landed on top. After we took a break, the winds starting to die down to 10-13mph. It was a great day!
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
3 flights 1.5 hrs air time at Chehalem (Newberg, OR) 2/2/16
Chehalem was soarable. The winds produced plenty of ridge lifts for Greg, Brian, Mark S, Vince (paragliders) and myself to maintain 300-500ft above launch. The winds were more on the light side at launch in the earlier afternoon (approx less than 5 mph). There was a lot of strong east components on it. Although I was able to get above launch but just not fun soaring into those funky and rowdy east airs. So my flight was short and landed at the bottom para LZ. Headed back up around 3:00pm and the launch condition got stronger (12-15mph) so I decided to fly again. Still have a lot of strong east but I flew for an hour and landed around 4:30pm at Johnson's Ranch (hang LZ) with almost zero wind at the LZ. It was still blowing very good at launch when I went back up to retrieved my car around 5:00pm. Thanks for Mark Sanzone driving for me.
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Sunday, January 31, 2016
4 flights one hrs + air time at Dog over the weekend
Saturday (1/30/16) report :
I ended up going to Dog Mt yesterday (1/30/16) after the parachute clinic in Seattle, Wash. It was windy enough for us (2 hangs and 3 paras) to do some ridge soaring and I topped out 300ft above launch. Scott, Travis and myself was able to squeaked out an hour of air time on the 2nd flight. We could have been stay up longer, but made a decision to landed because rain were approaching.
Sunday (1/31/16) report:
About a dozen of pilots flew Dog today. It was a pretty decent day considering almost no wind. The sky was overcast and also snowed in the late afternoon ..... I did get 700 ft over launch before the shut down of thermals on the 2nd flight. Stas launched a few minutes before me and got 1300ft over. The rain and snow arrived again around 4:30pm.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Oceanside sunset flight 1/28/16
It was an interesting day. Gabe and I arrived Oceanside around 1pm and found no beach for landing (6ft high tide at 3:30pm) , so we headed down to TDM, Pacific City, then to Newport Beverly Beach cliff launch site, in hopes to find a location where there was enough beach for landing. Unfortunately, no such luck. Also, the west winds were kind of light everywhere. I felt Beverly beach is soarable but Gabe insisted not so I don't want to argue with him. So at 3:30pm we decided to drive back to Oside from Newport. (1.5 hrs drive). Gabe went to Pacific City beach to do some paraglider kiting and didn't join me to Oside. The water wave was still reaching the rock on and off at 5pm when I arrived at the parking lot. The wind at the beach was blowing 10mph straight west so I headed up to launch to check it out. It was zero wind at launch but I decided to setup anyway. I launched at 5:30 in zero wind and found it soarable over Maxwell because of the west wind still blowing pretty good at the beach, so I flew till sunset alone. A lot of driving today, but was pleasantly surprised with getting a very nice soarable flight at Oceanside right before sunset. I'll post video later.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
3 flights 1 hour air time at Chehalem (Newberg, OR) 1/27/16
Today report: I was the only hang today along with 5-7 other paras who flew Chehalem Ridge (Newberg, Oregon). Thanks to Gregg, Dave B, and John for driving my car down, which allowed me to get 3 flights (2 soarable/ 1 sledder) in today. The winds at launch never exceed 15mph and it was pretty much dead calm at the LZ whole day. I launched around 11:00am right after Eric M. The winds were around 3 mph with gusts up to 8mph, I gained 50ft above launch quickly and also ran into a lot of sink too.Eric was able to maintain for more than half an hour and I was up for about 15 mins on the first flight. We then went back up again, and the winds became stronger than earlier. It was blowing 6-13 mph around 1pm at launch so we launched again. This time I gained 200 to 300ft above launch easily but the air was quite turbulence. I flew back and forth above launch for a while and got bored, so I headed towards the LZ after 40 mins of air time. The east winds crossing the valley made the ridge lifts not so enjoyable. I took another sledder around 4:00pm. All and all, it was a good day with 3 flights and over an hour of air time.
Monday, January 25, 2016
One sledder at Chehalem (Newberg, OR) 1/25/16
I came to Newberg with 6-8 pgs and I had an extended sledder. It was too light and too east earlier so everyone had a sledders until around 3:30pm it turned good. Two pgs were soaring the ridge when I done packing up. The condition is more straight with nice south cycles at launch. Day like today should fly later. Sunny and warm.
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