Wow you go ice climbing to get to your kiting spot. Thats extreme! WAY more extreme than wyoming. Do you kite with crampons on and ice axe or just ice axe? You don't need a sled anymore once you get to treeline. Thats where you start kiting. Kudos for doing all your adventures solo! Takes alot more drive to do it that way! I am going to start working on my ice climbing skills so I can hope to come out east and kite with the big boy.crabnebula wrote:HEY HOOOO
Ive been out on Moutn Washington and all the presidential peaks in NH for the last whole bunch of years.....I must say that back country kiting has a new definition then anything Ive seen out west...as we have NO snowmobiles allowed by law above tree line. The wind is typically over 80mph. Ice and snow climbing skills as well as general mountaineering skills and navigations skills in white out terrain is mandatory.
Ya hoo! All to myself so far!
Talk to you later!
I never said it was a joke chaz! Just thought it was funny that out east you need a different skill set to kite. like ice climbing, mountaineering, and whiteout navigation skills. None of those come into play out in the west where we just snowmobile right up to every spot and kite.kite_wyoming wrote:Whoa.
If I am not mistaken, Crabnebula is a professional mountain guide.Wayne, you and I kited with him back in 2005. I grew up back east and have climbed on Cannon cliff, Cathedral ledge and the Presidential range, including Mt. Washington. I can tell you that it is no joke, people die there all the time and the reason he kites by himself is that no one else is far enough out there to follow him.
Although, it seems like it would be fun!
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