Power Kite Forum

Where is the craziest place you have flown

Big Earl - 7-8-2009 at 06:43 PM

I would love to hear the stories of your crazy exploites! exotic, or unlikely places, crazy things you have done with kites etc.
This thread should not in any way be filled with good ideas or safety minded goody two shoes stuff. I want to hear the wild, stupid, once in a lifetime stories, if they are smart and safe so be it.

Kamikuza - 7-8-2009 at 07:12 PM

Flew my DIY-stunt kite down a side street in the middle of the city once - Bedford Row in Christchurch, NZ :lol: worked fine till it went on the roof of a carparking building and got stuck behind the lip ... after a bit of pulling & flapping of lines, I got it free again :D

Big Earl - 7-8-2009 at 07:44 PM

I buggied in Cardinal stadiums parking lot, until I got kicked out by security. I even got one of the security gaurds to go out flying a couple times

shuag - 7-8-2009 at 07:47 PM

Downtown Boise Idaho next to a power substation:o:o:o (i.e. lots of high voltage power lines) during a winter blizzard at night. If it wasn't for the streetlights reflection off of the snow and the headlamp I was wearing I wouldn't have been able to see anything.

It sure was fun getting drug through the snow in 20 mph winds though... . .. .

the winds were good I couldn't resist

action jackson - 7-8-2009 at 07:50 PM

Buggied on the roof of the sandpiper hotel in Galveston, tx. It was blowing 40+ with a 2.8m npw!..........aj

PHREERIDER - 7-8-2009 at 08:03 PM

i kite in the dark ....at night year round

no lights , the moon makes it supreme.

ipod and isolation for hours ATB or COYOTES

SOME RIDES MAY HAVE BEEN NEAR THE 80+ MILE MARK IN A 4-5 HOUR RIDE

100's OF SESSIONS. ....the meteors holy s)(it!

Kamikuza - 7-8-2009 at 08:08 PM

I'm going to have to give that a crack, Phree!

kitejumper - 7-8-2009 at 08:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by shuag
Downtown Boise Idaho next to a power substation:o:o:o during a winter blizzard at night. If it wasn't for the streetlights reflection off of the snow and the headlamp I was wearing I wouldn't have been able to see anything.

It sure was fun getting drug through the snow in 20 mph winds though... . .. .

the winds were good I couldn't resist


now that sounds like fun!! but not downtown--a field instead

markite - 7-8-2009 at 08:31 PM

Quite a few years back when I did a lot of kite demos I took a small group to do a demo in a prison for an activity day. Some of the guys were mildly interested - most weren't until I said in a good wind I could easily clear that wall with a big jump - they all wanted to try but the guards just let me demo and would not let them get their hands on the bigger kites (or the kite flyer).

william_rx7 - 8-8-2009 at 04:04 AM

Great stories.

Snowkiting at night with and iPod on really is awesome.
If you can coordinate with a full moon, it's even better. Here in S. Ontario, you only get wind, snow and moon maybe 1 night a season, maybe.

Not really crazy, just uncommon.

geokite - 8-8-2009 at 09:37 AM

Followed Jeff Howard and others up what became know as "Jeff's Nipple" (a rhyolite plug mountain east of El Mirage Dry Lake bed). Rotor effect was just out of reach on our 2-3m kites in 20-25 wind, but only came to mind when we got to the top. Then used the kite as brake the entire way down the steep hill to keep from going out of control.

Todd - 9-8-2009 at 02:46 PM

Pittsburgh PA at the fountain; Wind was brutal! :crazy:

jellis - 9-8-2009 at 06:48 PM

Next to the Fire Hole river in Yellowstone. On the grounds of the San Jacinto Monument, Texas. On the Pismo,CA dunes before it was banded. Bolsa Chica State park in LA before it was banded. Little Sahara State Park in Oklahoma. On the shore of Walker Lake very near Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot NV.

AJ it wasn't that you buggied the roof of the Sand Piper, in your condition we were amazed you got a Full Race up two long flights of stairs to the roof.

william_rx7 - 10-8-2009 at 05:15 AM

Quote:

On the shore of Walker Lake very near Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot NV.


I drove by that spot a few years ago, incredible.