Hardwater Kiter

It's about time. Last snowkite season was the worst I'd seen in the last ten years that I've been involved in this nonsense.  It was late getting here, the surface conditions were a mess most of the time and the wind, well there really wasn't any.  Kitestorm didn't have any wind, Mille Lacs didn't have any wind, the wind we had locally was almost always southerly which kinda sucks for a lot of our local spots.  It wasn't like previous years when my "go to" kite was a 13m Venom.  No last season pretty well sucked.  The suckiest suck that ever sucked. And I would take it over this season in a heartbeat. The ice situation this year has been non-existent.  We get a cold stretch and then a skim on the smaller lakes then we get hit by a warm stretch and it gets wiped out.  This keeps happening and I won't lie it's starting to feel like a punch in the privates everytime it happens.  My only solice is that we aren't suffering alone and

Well the season isn't carrying the momentum we hoped for after getting a jump start back in freakin November.  People are running around spouting "global warming" assuming these last two unusually warm months are because the Earth is getting warmer.  But we've been noticing that the spring months have been colder the last few seasons so it appears to me to be a shift in the seasonal cycles. At least that's what I'm going to keep telling myself.  Otherwise I might become suicidal at the thought that my snowkite seasons might be getting shorter. I've been playing with various Arcs that I haven't had much time on and cruising on my Coyotes (off road skates) as a substitute for skis and snow.  The Coyotes are actually a hell of a lot of fun but I use them rarely because they dig in a lot if the ground is a little soft and I don't want to tear up anyone's fields. But when the surface is firm they're a hoot. Mo and Jo Molly and