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If you take Jaap to an object, you will get winded out. At least three times in a row.

I'll be sure to update the score as time goes by. I don't think Jaap is ever going to jump this object... hehe...

Man, we nearly died on our way home. Remember you were joking about the driving on braille? Totally what happened! Good thing the Dane could drive for a bit or we would not be here to tell the story.

Got home at 6:00am, slept for two hours, and then had one of the most productive work days ever.

Not...

Phew. I was beginning to think it was just us. 'Course, we'd have done better not to start off with an object whose name prominently includes "Wind".

You monkeys might want to check this website:

http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-34_metric_e.html

This is, of course, assuming that I am thinking of the right place.

The Nakiska Ridgetop weather station is only ~8km away from the WT, so the windspeeds should be ~the same. The wall faces due N to slightly NW.

Also, it's in a PP, not an NP, so there's no prohibition against parachuting... just the occasional bear closure.

Next time, bring a kite, then you'll have something to do if it's too windy.

Oh yeah, the AWWS site can help too:
http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/cgi-bin/CreePage.pl?Langue=anglais&NoSession=NS_Inconnu&Page=forecast-observation&TypeDoc=html
You'll want the FD's below 18k.

The first two #'s are the direction (27 = 270degrees or W), the next two are are speed in knots (~double it to get KM), and the final two are the temp.

9900 means light & variable.

I check the Jasper & Calgary forcasts & guesstimate between.

--Briggs

the wind is your freind...

what could posibly go wrong?

Dude,Lene took some really cool stills yesterday... get online someday and see them;)

A few metres to the left (in the picture) and kiting becomes an extreme sport in its own right.