West Coast Soaring Club

Apparently not that hard to close a road up on Mount Woodside ....(I think I saw an old pip pin from UP Dragonfly....... "artifact on site")

Sure we didn't cause this, but its on us to deal with it.... or do we just walk by... obviously somebody else's responsibility?

I present our clubs premier flying site!

(kind of fitting the inline post version is on its side?.... click on it for the high def virtual experience!)

A bit of back story regarding the Sumas road access gate.... There is a long history of who and why the gate is in place but right now, the City of Abbotsford administers opening and closing schedule. They have hired a local towing company to provide emergency opening (for a fee ). Responsibility ha...

Thanks Pep, Some points of interest.... Regarding the Mountain bike community. I will be in contact with Kent regarding this project but I believe the intent is to create a staging area. (Like all of our human interactions with nature... they require PARKING LOTS :wink: ) ... Likely at the bottom of...

Thanks, being honest here, As much as I'm a hot head about this topic, we are not going to find a swift solution. First steps are assessing feasibility of a decommissioning process and map out alternate and acceptable access (trail). There are other issues that may or may not work in our favor, one ...

I have a optimistic expectation of increasing the distance from the parking area to the actually launch is to indeed deter the short attention span of the drunken clowns that bust up the road, stagger out of their 4x4's to unload their nail filled pallets onto launch for idiot bonfires.... at our ex...

We as a club have done plenty to USE our Mount Woodside flying site but have we done anything to PRESERVE it? Given the pathetic response to my suggestion to take control and limit vehicle access in an effort to save the last lower mainland hang gliding site, I doubt it is worth my time to take lead...

Originally posted on the Members Only Page.... Road to Woodside Launch.... Post by Martin » Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:38 am Looking for some feedback into a possible solution our access issues into the Woodside launch. This is just an idea that is just being kicked around so before anybody freaks out, post...

Data 12 hours old... did somebody kick the cord out of the server, or is someone going to climb a tree? .... (big weather event last night, did not see anything too strong prior to death).

Grumpy Martin

On Thursday, 15th of April, Health officials in British Columbia pleaded for people to to stick to their neighborhoods, stick to their family groups or cohorts. All in an effort to slow community spread of Covid. I guess the only time this gets real is when you or a loved one is sucking there last b...

Dang... so what does Grumpy Martin do? He clicks on the button.....

https://weather.martinzak.me/

(Nicely featured interface)

Grumpy Martin

(Because I love to complain :wink: ) Thought I would put this out there to the 3 or 4 other pilots that use this WCSC forum. The WhatsApp tribe of the WCSC have been slashing a new direct route to launch. The upper section of the project starts out of the logging slash just below launch and aggressi...

Heard via the grape vine there was a work party at Woodside? Some trail and carpet work? Would be nice if the "Whats-cr-app" or Line app crew would advise the directors and post the event on the club site? If we keep dividing into small and smaller tribes we can expect extinction to follow...

Bahhh!..... Regarding all of the above... A wonderful dissertation indeed :wink: Full of enthusiastic zeal, its pretty obvious James embraces the technology.... but.... pilots are pilots. They charge out to any piece of high ground to get airtime no matter what the weather. They drive out, hike up ...

Don't worry about 'Grumpy' Martin - He poo-poo's literally everything and I'm pretty sure he'd be opposed to the sun rising every day if he had a say... lol. Right Martin?!? Absolutely! Especially when someone wants to spend other peoples money, no matter how trivial it may appear. A little here, a...