Hardwater Kiter

Okay this session isn't my usual search for speed but my schedule and the weather FINALLY worked together and I managed to get one more day of riding in on the summit of Mount Washington.  Highest peak in the northeast and home of the highest wind ever observed.  (well, up until recently anyway) Wikipedia has good info on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_(New_Hampshire ) Our winds were a lot easier. I've been waiting over a month to get a chance to hit Washington.  Everyday that the conditions were right I had to work and every day I had off the winds were blowing the wrong way or too hard.  Mike Elliott and I were going to head up a few weeks ago and backed out at the last minute because of a weather change only to find out our friend Mark Acitelli from Colorado bagged a session on the west side of the mountain. We usually have NW winds which works for the west side but the west side rarely has enough good snow to make it worth heading up.  This season w

I want to ride this. The obvious thing about writting a blog about snow kiting is that when you lack the key ingredient of snow there isn't much to write about.  For a while I was happy that I could take a break and decompress from the rapid fire flurry of activity that constitutes our snowkite season.  Even with the recent wrist fusion and uncooperative weather this season we still got a ton of riding in and as a result I had a lot to write about.   When the season "ended" for us I felt a little relieved.  No more kite pre-checks, no more ski tuning, no more driving all over, no more pressure (self imposed or otherwise) to stay on top of the regular blog entries. Well, now I'm starting to itch.  Bike season is upon us. Molly just had her wrist repaired by Dr. Kasparyan (same surgeon that did my fusion. The guy's a rock star). I've been buying new bikes that have allowed me to ride at some level though not the level I'm accustomed to. But I still want to