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Vermont Kiting

abkayak - 5-3-2013 at 11:54 AM

Gonna take a drive to Vt this wkend or next.. Staying around Mt Snow but driving up to Stowe area...anyone have an area to suggest in between for kite skiing??

kiteNH - 5-3-2013 at 12:29 PM

I dunno about between, but if you are in Stowe you are near Burlington and could go out on Lake Champlain if the conditions are right (where they used to hold the Kitestorm event). I don't know what the snow/ice conditions are like right now. Haven't been up there since the last Kitestorm.

abkayak - 5-3-2013 at 12:42 PM

thanks....is it a park? or what should i look for?

Feyd - 5-3-2013 at 02:24 PM

Sandbar State Park. 89 N take Exit 17 to rt2 west.

Current surface conditions are grey boiler plate as of the other day. That may change by the time you get up as they have some snow in the forecast.

Have fun!

skimtwashington - 5-3-2013 at 07:11 PM

Sand Bar State park is former home of Kitestorm.

..... One hour north of Stowe. Biggest frozen play area you will find.


Someone ought to organize a festival again up there. :yes:

A big distance between Mt. Snow and Stowe:o

djinnzfree - 7-3-2013 at 02:17 AM

Watch out for thin ice. Temperature increase slowly... last week-end up here Canada-Québec on lake 2 mountains near indian reserve a guy pass across the ice... lucky for him to be able to get off the water before hypothermia / drowning.

Feyd - 7-3-2013 at 10:52 AM

There was a fatality on Mephramagog the other day. Guy went in while pulling his ice fishing hut off the ice. This is just north of Champlain.

Some of the lakes near North Conway are out of play. Keep in mind anything that was late to freeze will be early to go thin.

if you don't see sled tracks or bob houses on the ice there's a good reason for it.

abkayak - 7-3-2013 at 11:17 AM

jeez.......so much easier to just walk across the street to go on the beach...but hey, sometimes it's not just the destination its the journey...trip officially moved to next wk...thanks for looking out...i promise not to do anything real stupid

pongnut - 7-3-2013 at 03:44 PM

At least if you go through at Sandbar, the water isn't too deep - we were swimming there a couple of years ago and I was able to walk straight out from the beach for about 130 yards on my tip toes (I'm 5' 8") ;-)