I thought I could get a couple of turns in today. Instead, the lovely Colorado winds decide to surpass my personal, safety-and-experience-driven gust/avg wind mph threshold.

In case you were curious, it's 11am



I actually got a few REALLY exciting turns in on my buggy before I realized just how bad it was. Must've slid sideways about 40 yards in one second on a downloop gust combo on my 10m Speed4. A lesser kite would've had me in a sideways superman pose

Meh... Packing up

Holy SCHNIEKIES... That's some super jank!

I think that might warrant some sort of JWC award.

Dave-I was about to call you for the details of your exciting buggy time. 40 yard slide in a gust....man I love our state but the wind indeed SUCKS!!! With the Speed being sketch that is crazy....if you didn't have that super wide axle on the buggy it could have been worse! I boarded up this way with the 6meter Unity for about 12 seconds total...

I'm wondering if as this front actually gets closer it might feather out....but I don't like kiting in doubling plus gusts anyway let alone triple. If we leave right now we could be somewhere awesome by tomorrow morning....

glad you called it a day, wouldnt like to see you hit the 5 oclock news......

Thanks man. Anything over 75% of average is no bueno. It's now gusting up around 30 with lulls of 10 or less. Don't go out, Jeff. Go search the Internet and covet my new skis instead:

http://www.backcountry.com/faction-skis-candide-3.0-ski

Triple base is absolutely NO fun for me...and I avoid like the plague. 75% of average is probably an ideal rule of thumb for me too.

Didn't go out-totally holding out for better wind!!

I will check out your skis-always fun to poke around. Pretty stoked for snow-just around the corner. Hope we have an insane year and looking forward to start the scoping again.
I bet we can find the holy grail with some hours of searching. Brad (Yeti) and I searched quite a few spots last winter and found a couple but none true perfection

Jeff

I flew with pbc in similar craziness. Wind was gusting to ~30 with the average speed reading 15. That said, we both regularly had lulls lasting 30 seconds or so with almost no wind at all. It was blowing 0-30. I've never seen anything like it. I had a 8m ch2 and pbc flew a 10m scorpion on a small field with lots of obstacles. I was being a chicken since it was my first flight on the kite with a new custom setup I hadn't tested. pbc had some moments as did I, but arcs are lovely gust munchers and it was a great session for inland flying.

Similar winds in Baltimore yesterday. 15-20 gusting to 30+. Pretty bummed as I wanted to fly and had planned to meet up with Diggity Schwagg. I don't have a 2m yet though and didn't want to risk it with a 3m (on sunday at Wildwood I had tried in similar conditions and didn't feel the least bit safe).

@Dave- any more feedback on the peaks i would have thought those can handle anything from the reviews :D:D but seriously had the peaks out again recently and anymore feedback. Next stupid question- I saw how much you loved your speed 4 in clean wind and noticed you had it up in the f winds so when do you reach for your peaks?
thnaks
cott

Looks like a pretty normal day in these parts. :D Prime Peak winds.

we need to work on expanding your quiver dave . I had an awesome day Sunday [2 Nov] on a 6m foil. i was out from 9:45 -13:30. granted i did have my release let go several times :o but i did get 13 km in the buggy topping out at 40.9 kph.

yeah today was blowing good, glad to hear someone went riding