Squamish

[8mdude]

Sunday is looking promising. Cross fingers.

[Slappy]

Sunday and Monday both looking good for Squamish.

[Alton]

Already inflowing SW 15 at 9:40am

[Brian C]

Good turnout at Nexen today for such a gusty and choppy day. I was working hard on the 5.7/110 and would have been better off with smaller gear if it weren't for the lulls. Improved a bit after about 3 pm but seemed to get colder too, under the thickening clouds. Not many classic days at Squamish yet this season.

[8mdude]

5.5 hours with 6m kite and 4.5m sail and 90 L board.

Got home and was shivering for 45 mins Must have been hypothermia. All OK now.

[Alton]

Fantastic day at the Spit. First on the water at 10:30am with 12m+TT. Slightly underpowered until I discovered my kite was on the "wave" setting then switched back to "standard" setting. Smooooooth water in the river and between sandbars. Excellent boosting day. After 3 hrs, I took a lunch break to escape the crowds at 1:30pm. Just about to return until I heard reports of gusty/choppy conditions so I packed it up. Just as I left at 3pm the wind become steady again.

Huge turnout in the afternoon with lots of marathoners making up for lost time this terrible season.

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[Brian C]

Well timed Alton. My timing was certainly off; my session was right in the middle of the gusty/choppy crap. An hour of windsurfing in those conditions was all I could stomach. I noticed that the people who went out later had much steadier wind - damn!

[Alton]

Well timed Alton...

It was pure luck. I've been working on Bayesian statistics for 3 consecutive days and desperately needed to leave the house to stop my head from spinning. Arrived early in Squamish and was treated with an early start.

[Tony360]

From my Forensic Epidemiology textbook, Bayes' Theorem (Syn: Bayes' Law): A method of revising or "conditioning" the probability of the occurrence of an event given the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an associated event or events.

So as a result of Alton working too hard on Bayesian Statistics, he travelled to the Spit earlier and thus increased the probability of a good session in light of the early steady wind.

[Alton]

... So as a result of Alton working too hard on Bayesian Statistics, he travelled to the Spit earlier and thus increased the probability of a good session in light of the early steady wind.