I just got back from the Sandbar. It was my first year at the Kitestorm but the turnout seemed nice - the parking lot was filled to capacity at noon with more people arriving still. The dump last night helped the conditions a lot. Could have been a bit windier but overall a good time

Another Kitestorm has come and gone. Had a great time inspite of the light winds. Got to meet a lot of new people and see a lot of old friends.

The turn out was good. Friday the wind was nukin and the visabilty was less than 1/4 mile. Saturday lighter winds but still good and Sunday the winds crapped out half way through the day but it was wicked nice out all the same. Allowed us to leave a little early to get home and snowblow our driveways.

Sorry Peter Lynn Kiteboarding wasn't able to make it in an official capacity but I hope I was able to help some of you who had questions about thier ARCs. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get done with the racing in time to let anyone take mine out for a spin.

My only complaint would be a certain group of kite company reps that had total disregard for other kiters gear and safety. They and also left a spent propane tank and other garbage behind when they left. Way to represent.

Some of the local Burlington kiters cleaned up after them.

Otherwise it was a great time.

Feyd I agree with all your comments. Mostly our niebors with the attitude. Glad they didn't show Sunday.

Saturday was amazing ...... Start kiting around 9am and finished around 4 with one break only......

Great shot there Kober. Rachael said that at one time she counted 64 kites in the air at once.

9-4 is a pretty long day, nice work!

@ Roc, I hear ya man. At one point I remembered I turned on my helmet cam to catch some of the lameness that our less than considerate neighbors were exhibiting. Hopefully that vendor won't send the romper room next year.

But I'm not gonna dwell on jackasses. It was a great time over all and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. A lot of you guys had to drive through some nasty stuff to get there and I was glad to see so many people made it.

I'm apologize to anyone who was looking to get on a Charger while they were there. As you know Peter Lynn was unable to have demo representation there and I was there to race so my time to interact was extremely limitied. I wish I could have gotten some people out on my kites after the races but as you all know the wind have pretty much craoked by then.

Hopefully next year!

I would like to apologize as well for being unable to attend, rode the couch all weekend hoping the best for you guys! Now bring on the pictures so I can see what I missed!!

What a great time!

The drive was awful as it should have been a 4.25 hr trek that turned into a 7+ hour crawl. The roads were terrible on Friday with cars spinning out all over 93 and 89.

Sat was great! Got up and did a bunch of downwinders on my 7 Frenzy and then as the wind lighted up to about 4-8, I snached up Anderson's 9 Frenzy and actually got some upwind runs in! I was so STOKED to say the least and will post our usual video montage in the coming days.

With no wind on Sunday we just toured Burlington. Hit Magic Hat Brewery, Burton Factory and Ben & Jerry's. Good times but would have preferred some wind instead.

Yes - snowkiting is SO much more fun when you can actually DO IT!

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Yea the ride up was brutal , glad Saturday made up for it. It was fun to be able to show what the sled is capable of ... bang poof bang poof poof bang poof oh sh** poof bang , took two passes before I realized why I was hitting so hard , forgot my seat cushion. My son Morgan was pounding it all day on the green 10m apex , the kid could hardly walk that evening. As always thank you Rachael and company for a great event!

Spider I was highly impressed with your sled. And totaly frustrated with my buggy skiis!! But there is always next year. I think I need to build a much lighter frame with blades for ice. If it gets cold enough tonight I may take it to the local field in the morning and see how it goes on hard frozen snow and ice.

well we had snow this year.it was cold in the morning,i had a tuff go at it on skis,not enough power,should have used my 6m jojo rm .met new kiters rode with old kiters.saw this guy rode over jaymz lines(insert swear word here) it's on the video.buggy-dan won a kite," sooo he had a wicked good time "thanks rachael of stormboarding.com for letting us play in your back yard hq boys see you soon.

WOW, Great event. My head's still in a haze. Tough getting back to work today. Started going though the pics and video tonight. Todd, hope your getting better. I'll put something together and have it up in a few days. Stay tuned.

The trip started off with a rough 10 hour drive up Friday though rain, ice, and snow. Lost count of all the cars off the road.

Saturday was the day with just enough wind hanging around until late in the day. The 14M Gin saved the day. I've never seen so many kites up in one place. What a site :singing: Good mix of skiers, boarders, and a few buggies.
Thank you Chris for taking the time to help with the ARC I'll let you know how the mods work out.

Bummer when some asshat (from the romper room?) ran over and ruined my lines which kept me off the ice for awhile. Paul was Johnny on the spot and got it on tape Couldn't find anyone selling lines but Kober saved the day pulling a new lineset out of his bag of tricks. Thanks bud.

Here's a suggestion, why not have a rule like we have in motorcycle racing, NO riding in the pits. It looked to me like we had a setup area Saturday, but alot of riders were clueless and riding aimlessly though staked kites and pedestrians. Not good.

Always good to see the Nahant crew and good hanging with Chuddy and BF at The Windjammer bar. Easy on that thumb.
Saturday night Banquet was a full house with good food, good flix, and prizes and giveaways flying around the room.

No wind Sunday, so we headed over to Mallets Bay to check out an ice autoX. Kober and I had a good time riding shotgun with a few drivers and drifting the truck on the ice.

A BIG Thanks to Rachael and crew for all their hard work and for putting on the event year after year. See you next year, or maybe sooner.

The crew at Lake Simcoe last year had a nicely marked out launch and land area that was set up to deal with a snowmobile supper highway that passed thru close to the event , very simple , worked very well.
Maybe next year a more orderly pit area could be arrainged to reduce line crossing problems. I saw four lines run over last year 3 in a row by a skier and 1 by kids pushing a runner sled. I mark mine with little orange soccer cones now just hoping someone will figure out what they are there for.

Great idea using the cones, but who needs MORE crap to carry out on the ice. lol And some people even forget to carry all their crap back off
I'm posting a KiteStorm 2011 video in the snowkite forum. Threw in Pauls clip of Asshat running over my lines. It's towards the end.
All in all had a great weekend, don't let the ominous soundtrack fool you ;-)

I never heard AssHat before!! thats funny.

Our take on the fun.

http://www.vimeo.com/20590389

Unfortunately, Anderson's cam froze so the footage of him riding was lost

I'll have to make up for it in the next video!

Pretty sweet feeling when you put it all together. Congrats!

Great to see everyone again. Ran into an old friend on the ice, but didn't realize who they were until their full name was announced at the gathering Saturday night. Total aoxo!

HQ Kites had a wonderful time offering demos. Glad to know we were not the offending company. :saint:

Here are some video clips off my iPhone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADcBa3uVug

I'm glad it wasn't you guys too. You were good niebors on the ice. And I like your videos as well.

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Found this on the web ........
80 pics from Kitestorm ..... sadly non with me ..... hope you find there yours .....

http://shotinvermont.smugmug.com/Events/kitestorm-2011/16019...

Thanks Kober, There are a lot of Patterick aka Snowspider.

Crap cant get to it from work, "social networking" is not allowed on company computers and I cancelled my internet phone plan. I'll see it at home, thanks Kober, thanks Dave!

Do you know any other sources of video or pictures from last event

Have you checked the stormboarding website? There are some photos from each year going back a ways. I thought I had a link, but I guess not, if you put stormboarding in your search block, you should find it.

Sad news. I spoke with Rachael today and she informed me that she is shutting down her Stormboarding business and that Kitestorm will not happen in 2012.

She has been focusing her energy and time on The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean.

http://www.rozaliaproject.org/

Certainly wish her the best. But going to miss Kitestorm.

:o WOW! That is sad news indeed! Especially since taking up this obsession, I have been telling myself, next year, hoping I would gain the skills to ride in a crowd! lol So I never got to kitestorm...

Kite storm was great last year. I didn't accomplish much due to my ski project fail! But I was very empressed by those who succeded. And now I have The Blades Of Death I was looking forward to this coming event.
Do you think we could just meet up there on the proposed dates and have some fun?

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Originally posted by rocfighter Kite storm was great last year. I didn't accomplish much due to my ski project fail! But I was very empressed by those who succeded. And now I have The Blades Of Death I was looking forward to this coming event. Do you think we could just meet up there on the proposed dates and have some fun?

I'm sure you could. I'm pretty sure this isn't an event where you need to have a special permit or anything.. Just show up and have some fun...

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Originally posted by rocfighter Kite storm was great last year. I didn't accomplish much due to my ski project fail! But I was very empressed by those who succeded. And now I have The Blades Of Death I was looking forward to this coming event. Do you think we could just meet up there on the proposed dates and have some fun?

I was thinking the same thing...

Looks like I came up with a good idea:singing: I guess stranger things have happened:shocked2: