Power Kite Forum - Snowkite season on hold in Central Alberta!?!?

rectifier

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posted on 18-1-2014 at 07:14 PM

Snowkite season on hold in Central Alberta!?!?

Due to lack of snow!
After the month of -20C, now it has been above freezing for 2 weeks all day... the lakes are lumpy with re-frozen slush, the fields are muddy and nearly bare! Open water is starting to show in small sloughs... And all that is predicted is more balmy temperatures, it was +10C today and I was out in my t-shirt.

How are other prairie snowkiters doing with this winter, is it warm in your location too? I wait all year for this season and we are getting a BUM deal! Not ready for spring just yet!

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Cheddarhead

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posted on 18-1-2014 at 07:43 PM

That stinks! Hope it turns around for ya soon. I would send you some snow if I could.

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Bladerunner

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posted on 19-1-2014 at 11:20 AM

That same warm air has kept us off of Green Lake and effected us in the S.W. as well. :ticking:

Kites: 2.5m Profoil , Quadrifoil XL kitesurfer, NPW 5 Danger.
Flexifoil: 1.7m Sting, 4.9m Blade 3, 9m Blade 2.
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Peter Lynn :18m Phantom, 15m Synergy, 10m Synergy, 1200 Farc, 460 Sarc, 130 Tarc, 5m Peel, 4.2m , 6.4, 8.5 C-Quads, 3.5 LS2 single skin.

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