Sweltering Heat at Woodside

Yesterday a friend from the States came up to visit, so I decided to do so some Fraser Valley flying with him along with another friend.

I didn't expect conditions to be great, and they weren't. It was disgustingly hot - around 35 degrees and barely a cloud in the sky. I hung out on the ground at Woodside launch for a while and didn't go until I thought I could stay up for a while. After launching I found small thermals just about everywhere but I couldn't get more than a two or three hundred feet above launch.

I briefly throught about attempting a low cross country, but the thought of having to ask someone for retrieve, even from the nearby Harvest Market, didn't much appeal to me in that heat.

So instead I bobbed around for a while until I got bored, landed, packed up my gear, and then just about passed out from the heat in Jim's barn.

Not a great day for flying, but a good socializing day anyway. I am missing Golden already - a short trip to Pemberton (mini-Golden) should happen in the next two weeks, weather permitting of course.