Friday, April 25, 2014

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.