From my experience I'd be super safety concious and use town land till told you cant and DEFINATLY ask farmers permission. He may have frost sensitive cpops under snow and even x-country skiing can cause damage. I have flown on LOTS of farmers feilds and only refused once for previous mentioned reas...

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Thanks
Rob

jakemooremd wrote: Don't a lot of these use a smaller pilot kite?

Yes some of the show kites require a piliot but they are mostly used to provide additional lift in gusty\lully conditions. Flying at a higher altitude the piliots generally get stabler wind.

Rob

I think the how is through design with Peter Sr's experience designing and building MASSIVE single line show kites. These large kites demand extraordinary stability characteristics and through his experience he has learned a thing or two. The why is partially due to his interest in designing kite bo...

Last minute get together...hehehe

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Last minute get together...hehehe

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Hey Brian Hey Lemur, how well do the ice fishing shack anchors work? I've only used ice screws. Do the employ quicklylike a hook, or do they drill in like a screw? They are a screw with a T handle....I've never used a proper ice climbing screw but for $7 Cdn.....(1.95 USD :lol: )... I can afford to ...

what about grip on glassy ice?anyone use skis on slick,glassy ice? :-? Sharp...if it is REALLY cold then even sharp may not be good enough...I find that as long as surface is somewhat consistant you can adjust with kite size or technic....ie:if you have mostly ice with some patchy snow spots you wi...

Wibbler...you kiteskiied in an indoor snow dome?...curios as to what the entrance fees for these amusment parks in china are...do they charge big Yen?.. Tom...where abuots in UMA are you....love the location name...you should come on up... srod...ya, Id say within 24 hrs is good nuf....Im kinda thin...