Record Warmth, Not a Snowkiter's Friend.


Molly, Mike and I went North the other day to see is we could get another session up by Santa's Village. We drove up and were pleasantly suprised to see the surface conditions were still prime but but dissapointed by the lack of wind. The wasn't a puff to be felt. We opted to drive around and scope out some locations in hopes of maybe finding good surface with some wind. Everywhere we went it was the same story, great surface but ZERO wind. That's the name of the game with kiting I guess, sometimes you score without trying and sometimes you get skunked no matter how hard you try.

While we were out I got some pics of the areas we checked out.(see below)
Unfortunately after a few short days of scratching sessions out on the small oasis of snow we had up north we got hit by torential rain and 68deg F. temps. It just killed the surface and our hopes of getting out to ride anytime soon. It rained like hell Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and then the sun came out late morning as the final nail in the coffin for local riding. While all the non-kiters were running around exclaiming how nice it was I was crying a little bit inside. This almost 70 degree weather in December is just wrong.

Thursday was pretty nice so I used the time that I'd rather spend kiting and took on the job of gearing up the new Odyssey for kite season. It's a project to get the van set up to accommadate the multiple kites,pairs of skis,protective gear,clothing,dog and dog related gear etc. I had to change some of the procedures that worked so well in the Windstar but I think I got it pretty well dialed in. We'll refine it as we go along. The new rig is awesome. It holds everything that we need, has the power we need and handles like a dream. All it really needs is to get off the Michelins and get something a little more substantial on it for tires.
After test loading the Ody to make sure I had room for the "kitevan security system" (also known as Sirius)Molly and I deep fried a chicken and some wings for lunch.

Gotta love deep fried anything. Sirius was a slobbering grease mesmerized beast as he supervised Molly's draining the fryer.

We're getting a little snow as I write this. Maybe we'll get a few inches and some wind tomorrow. Maybe we'll get out and trash some skis.

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