Wenatchee - April 20

Back on the Wenatchee again! As every year, we met old friends and made new ones. Hiked the hills covered by yellow balsam root flowers and blue lupins. Listened to the wild turkeys call in the evening. I was really hoping I would get to paddle more this year. But it was not to be as I managed to tweak my shoulder again. This time it wasn’t paddling – it was from trying to catch my gliderbag as it dropped over the side of a pickup truck. Bummer!

Blanchard Flying - April

Best Blanchard flights ever! So far my flights here have either been disappointingly short sled rides or ridge soaring to 50 or 100 meters above launch. It didn’t look as if the clouds in the Fraser Valley would clear so we decided to give Blanchard a try. We arrived to nice puffy clouds out over the flats and cycles coming in. Easy launching, thermaling to cloud base, flying out over the water, coming back to the hill and repeat again. There were even a few climbs over the flatland I managed to get up in. Excellent spring flying with a nice group of fellow canucks.

Epic Airtime - April 1st

Not an April fools joke... April 1st was one of the few days in the Fraser Valley when it is possible to soar above the summit of Mt Cheam and Pete did just that. I was happy enough getting up high near the summit just 100 meter below it. Not much flying was to be had in March (but skiing got finally good!). April offered very nice flights at Blanchard where air time for us had previously been limited to either sled rides or ridge soaring.

Wet March

As we can read on Cliff Mass’ blog this March precipitation came down in record amounts. Unfortunately this also led to a tragic landslide in Oso WA. Here is hoping for drier weather for the rest of spring.

http://cliffmass.blogspot.ca/2014/03/the-wettest-march-in-seattle-history.html