Showing posts with label Benny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benny. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Flying XC in BC - June 20-26

 

This year we had not many options for places to fly with all the fires, the smoke and the wind. The more adventurous did a sporty down-wind flight from Pemberton to Gold Bridge and yes, as we knew already, Carpenter Lake gets a bit exciting when its windy (see Nick Neymen’s blog on this https://sharemyjoys.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/vol-biv-hitch-in-canada). The smoke beat us to Clearwater. Much better flying near Williams Lake (no smoke here) lead to a plan to come back when the weather would be less prone to over development. Looks like a great area for flatland thermals! We spent the last two days close to home (for us) and flew Benny and Bridal.

Monday, April 1, 2019

Flying the Back of Benny


Fantastic day yesterday at Benny. First time for me to venture into tiger (or bear?) country north of Mount St Benedict. Also never before done that many spirals and big ear/speed bar on one flight (to avoid airspace... apparently it worked... max altitude 1980m). Nice flying first with Nicole, KVA and Rod and on the way back I joined up with Pete. Lots of other amazing flights too!

My 50 km triangle

A lot of tracks all over. Hammertag as they would say in the Alps!