SNOWKITE UTAH - In a BLIZZARD


My partner Saar and I were honored to team up with Jeff Kafka, Chip Wasson and Steve Gibson - 3 kiters who recently accomplished a FIRST - the first ever to kite the mongo waves at Mavericks to lead a band of entrepreneurs on a snowkiting expedition to snowkite Utah -- in a blizzard... kiting in 4 feet of fresh snow. The day's already been described in posts from ex - Googler Chris Sacca and start up junkie Mark Maunder who wrote up our adventure.

Snow Kiting South Lake Tahoe

'08 starts with a charm. A year long effort to snow kite South Lake Tahoe is a SUCCESS!
A year ago at this time, a friend and I trekked around South Lake Tahoe for an hour looking to kite.
Word was we should check out Grass Lake at Luther Pass, and Hope Valley. Hope Valley doubles as a snowmobile track (people ride over lines, kiters get in the way) , so we made our way to Grass Lake. Once there, we trekked out onto the ice… and realized that neither of us had brought a pump :( . Bummer.

Well, this year we made the trek, pump in hand – and made it out to kite. We ended up launching my GK Sonic 11 and had a great session. BACK in the saddle again after months of no kiting...HERE'S a CLIP, mixing footage from a Camrig attached digital cam (on the kite), with helmet cam footage from an Oregon Scientific ATC2K. After viewing my first ever snow session, if you actually want to get stoked, watch THIS VIDEO from Best Kiteboarding .

Snowkiting 101 DVD back on line..

Shannon Best AKA "the most LOVED HATED man in Kiteboarding" has given me a green light to allow my friends to download his new DVD video - Snowkiting 101. I've broken the download into 2 parts (part 1 and part 2) to reduce the probablility of your computer 'timing out' as the whole DVD at once takes a long time. Alternatively, you can order the DVD for snail mail delivery by going to the Best Website. Here's a downloadable clip for a PC in mpeg format ..


To copy and create a physical DVD, create an empty folder, unzip and copy everything from part 1 into it, then copy all the files from the second download into the same folder. Rename that whole thing "VIDEO_TS" (without the quotes) and print the folder exactly as is onto a DVD disc. Don't be boggled by all the files and filenames - there are a bunch - they should look like this: DVD File Structures. The printed DVD will play in your dvd player at home - OR if you have a software DVD player (like InterActual) installed on your PC it will play there as well.