Take-off – East Point Park Scarborough
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- Direction
- NNEESESSWWNW
- Coordinates
- 43.7631, -79.1500
- Altitude
- 94 m
- Region
- Ontario, CA
- Landing
- 0.0 km from the take-offView on map ↗
Take-off description
East South East facing bluffs that are permit ridge soaring in (moderately rare) ESE onshore winds off of Lake Ontario.
Getting there
In Scarborough Ontario, get to the intersection of Beechgrove Drive and Copperfield Road. park in the plant parking lot on the south west corner. There's a path from the south east corner of the intersection that leads up the small hill to the launch point overlooking Lake Ontario
Weather
Windfinder: http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/east_point_park_scarborough NOAA MAPS Sounding: http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/reply-skewt.cgi?data_source=MAPS&lon=-79.15&lat=43.7631&airport=%28none%29&add_hours=-3 Pearson high-accuracy forecasts: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/nammeteograms/stations/716240.html
Rules / airspace
Unknown.
Comments
Good for relative beginners, but not good for the first experience paragliding.