Haida weather
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:22 pm
Just got back from 10 days of fieldwork on Haida Gwaii. Short days were good (not light enough to walk until 8:45) for being out of condition. We had one great storm, I think the day before SW BC got it - I was in Sewall Inlet camp, and it blew about 60 kt in the gusts - huge sheets of blowing spray. Would have been just right for a 2 m sail or a trainer kite! The wind started to strip roofs off a couple of the older houses in the logging camp -- and they've been through a few storms! (the maintenance guys loaded up the roofs with big rocks and they stayed put). So much rain was coming in around the windows of even the newer buildings, the manager lost a TV and DVD player from his bedroom due to water damage.
I was up in Massett at the beginning of the trip, and met several surfers - apparently there are a whole raft of them wintering up there this year but NO kiters???? Massett in winter seems a great place for kiting, with temperatures almost the same as the south coast, and options for NE, SE or NW winds - and it blows hard a lot -- mixed in with great surf and huge open beaches you can even drive on legally, even in the parks.
Morley
I was up in Massett at the beginning of the trip, and met several surfers - apparently there are a whole raft of them wintering up there this year but NO kiters???? Massett in winter seems a great place for kiting, with temperatures almost the same as the south coast, and options for NE, SE or NW winds - and it blows hard a lot -- mixed in with great surf and huge open beaches you can even drive on legally, even in the parks.
Morley
