Saturday Wind

[Mike]

I was wondering who that was out there! The airport reading had me worried too. It quickly jumped up and went SSE so I rushed to the beach but was too late. Too bad as it was warmer than expected and the waves were really nice!! Glad you got on it early! Hope Alton scores at White Rock.

It was good but would have been better with company. In hindsight I should have put out an osr but I was uncertain about it lasting. Plus my data connection is very sketchy at 3rd.

Alton - curious how it went at white rock on the high tide. I recall a few years ago locals worrying about questionable launching (think train).

[imdmitry]

I launched at 3d on 86l and 4.2. It was great for few runs and wind dropped. Talked to Mike while he was packing went back to derig but it was windy enough for another hour. Was only me and wingfoiler. Wind switched to S came back downwind half way to Centenial. Waves were big, did one back loop attend, landing on back, was painfull.
Huge swell today for good jumping.

Derig and went to Tsawwassen for another 1:30 hour on 7m and kitefoil.
3 windsurfers few wingfoilers and few kiters on tt were out. It was great to have some sunshine while packing. Dry kite.

[Alton]

3 Session Day ... more about quantity than quality

1. Cypress ... 3 runs snowboarding this morning ... 10-15 cm heavy snow down Maelle Ricker and Ashley McIver ... then Jerry and I poached Crazy Raven with knee deep but heavy pow.

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2. White Rock early afternoon ... overpowered on 12m+surfboard (8m would have been better) in SSW 20-25 with sweet waves. Came in while there was still beach to land ... Rob D arrived late with a sketchy launch (shown below) ... I wonder how he landed

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3. Crescent Beach ... joined Matt P (9m+TT) for a sunset session. I was underpowered on 8m+surfboard in SSW 16 ... should have been on 12m.

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[Alton]

Alton - curious how it went at white rock on the high tide. I recall a few years ago locals worrying about questionable launching (think train).

At 3.8m tide we had to launch at the shore half way between the grassy area and the reservation parking lot. Of course, there wasn't enough beach to self launch ... so help was mandatory.