Re: Sierra Snowkite Summit - Jan 25,26,27
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:04 pm
Terribly conditions for kiting, but * I * thought, it was a lot of fun for my first time in snow. Got in 3 good little sessions. Snow def burns out you faster than water. The place is probably not big enough for the number of kiters that showed up tho. We alone were a group of 5.
What "helped" was that there was barely any wind. It varied between -5 - 20mph in that little valley. Just a few of us were able to get going, but just going. Still every kite there spent more time on the ground than in the air. Even trainer kites couldn't stay up. Gusts would last some 20sec and then you're back on your ass swinging the kite so it stays up. If your kite was big enough you had a better chance to link the next gust, or use the gust to relaunch jalapeno-hot and get you to your next checkpoint.
It was also very warm so the snow got pretty slushy, specially towards the afternoon ie. slow and took much more effort to get going.
The organizers are hella helpful and fun to be around, so that's awesome. Almost the whole group went to a trampoline place after that killed it. I'd go back 100% with better conditions.
What "helped" was that there was barely any wind. It varied between -5 - 20mph in that little valley. Just a few of us were able to get going, but just going. Still every kite there spent more time on the ground than in the air. Even trainer kites couldn't stay up. Gusts would last some 20sec and then you're back on your ass swinging the kite so it stays up. If your kite was big enough you had a better chance to link the next gust, or use the gust to relaunch jalapeno-hot and get you to your next checkpoint.
It was also very warm so the snow got pretty slushy, specially towards the afternoon ie. slow and took much more effort to get going.
The organizers are hella helpful and fun to be around, so that's awesome. Almost the whole group went to a trampoline place after that killed it. I'd go back 100% with better conditions.
