rofer
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Anything near Pittsburgh?
I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if anyone who's currently active is in the general Pittsburgh area, but just in case I'm posting this.
As far as I can tell there's no good place to fly inside Pittsburgh with full length lines. When I was desperate I would take out my NPW on short
lines in Schenley Park, but that generally didn't work too well until I was seriously overpowered.
I do know there's a kite club over at http://windstarkites.com/FlyPghKiteClub.htm, however I don't have a car so I haven't been able to join them yet. I'm hoping I can find somewhere I
can fly without a car, but if not I'll likely have a car in a few months (or be somewhere else).
It also seems that no one kites on the rivers, but I did find reports of some people sailing along them, so I'd think kiteboarding could be possible.
Anyone happen to be in the area or know about anywhere around here that I could fly at?
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hiaguy
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Wildwood?
(Hey, it might be eight hours away, but it's look in' like the only option.)
See you there!
Go ahead... tell me to "go fly a kite!" Please!
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abkayak
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do whatever you can to move to a coast
pblm solved.
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cheezycheese
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Yeah, you should do whatever you can to get to Wildwood this week. Will definitely be worth your time.
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rofer
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kiteballoon just pointed out (in the IRC channel you should all join) that I'm only 2.5h from Lake Erie. Looks like as soon as I have a car I'll try
and live up there on the weekends.
I actually have Thursday and Friday off, so if I had a car I could try and make it to Wildwood. Without one that trip is kind of difficult though.
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