Back in Valle de Bravo for some fun flying with old and new friends. Cloudstreet to the Butterflies (for my non-paragliding friends... we fly under this sort of street and the clouds show us where the lift is). A wonderful flight with Peter and Julie. My favourite in Valle de Bravo so far. And the flights keep getting better every time we visit.
Record Rainfall in BC and the Pacific Northwest
“Hope, Agassiz, Malahat, Lillooet, and Abbotsford set new daily rainfall records on November 14, while both Hope and North Vancouver exceeded their average rainfall levels for all of November in a span of two days.”
Road Traffic between Vancouver and the rest of Canada cut off
“The combined closures of sections of British Columbia Highway 1 (part of the Trans-Canada Highway), Highway 99, Highway 7, Highway 3, and the Coquihalla Highway (part of British Columbia Highway 5) had the effect of cutting off road traffic between Metro Vancouver and the rest of Canada.”
Highway 3 reopened Nov
29, 2021 for essential traffic (regular traffic Dec 21, 2021)
Highway 99 (Duffey Lake) Nov 29, 2021
Highway 1 (Fraser Canyon) Jan 24, 2022.
Highway 5 (Coquihalla) Dec 20, 2021 for commerical traffic, Jan 19, 2022 for
regular traffic
Highway 8 between Merritt and Spences Bridge still closed as of July 2022
Sumas Prairie Flooded
In addition water from the Nooksack river in WA contributed to the flooding of Sumas Prairie in BC, leading to evacuations, closure of roads and railroad tracks and substantial loss of lifestock.
First turns of the season at Cypress XC area. Not exactly pow but beats the rain anytime!
Fall is hiking time and we did three new hikes this fall:
Ridge walk in the Coquihalla from Zupjok to Lama (great berries and mushrooms too)
Hope Mountain and Wells Peak
Outsetter Ridge in the Chilliwack Valley
