Metro Blast at Sundown

Latest sesh in a long time. Didn't get on the water until over 5:30 PM, rigged up the 4.2 and the small board and headed out with the west slightly northwest wind. Epic steep 3-5' waves and dark windy water gusts 20 to 30++ nicely powered up. Great jumps and wave slashing. Well worth a late night on the water. Thank you jet stream for kicking it.

Great 5th of July at Caseville

Great sunny 80 degrees and solid 15-20 SSW kiting off the breakwall with the Fox on Saturday. 12m perfection with glassy super shallow beach along the breakwall. Up for visit and tour of Thumbs Up Kiteboarding and epic beach day. Followed by Thumb Brewery dinner which still lacks a lot as restaurant. Long drive not withstanding this is a great kiting spot with lots of wave potential when the winds pick up. I'll be back for sure when it's going west in the Sag Bay.

Tuesday makes it Day 3 at Metro

Wow what a great day out of metro or third day in a row. When started out a little lite for the 12 m kites at 2pm 10-15 as forecast.....then picked up steadily by 5 PM it was 25+ SSW. Sunny, 80 degrees and about 40 sailors out with most windsurfers lit up on 5.5's. Craig ripping overpowered until almost 8pm making the 12 look like a 9m! Too windy for the strapless board but some great carves on the Carbon Mako. Everything moves a lot quicker in the turns and wow is the power there when you come out too fast! Classic thermal day too, basically this was only sailing spot on LSC to go off!

Torn Shirt Murray Feel the Heat

Sweatfest again Saturday. Long 15 miles in 2 hours with a very fast Strava for Torn Shirt section. JB and DB jr. Pressing the whole way. Good fun but with Found Loop really lonnngggg....

Metro Second Day see more action.

Ok now, right back to Metro again sun and SSW at 10-20+. This time more than powered on the Turbine 17. Tried the 12 at 3pm initially but just not enough. Then solid from 4 until 8pm sunset. John killing it with the backspin rolls and last man off the water.

Great day when there's no way you could make any WS happen. Big kite key to on demand power and fun.

Crazy day Metro - Rain then Sun and Wind!

Everyone was at metro yesterday so I drove over in the pouring rain at 1pm.... it dumped until got sunny and cranked dead south for about 2 hours - caps and 5.5m for most... I only brought kite and 12m was really powered...by 5pm it was done..great short session - I'm going again today atleast for some rides on the 17m kite...but a repeat would be great. 

Fast Saturday at Addison and Bald

Record setting ride at Addison looping only getting slowed by the trail builders working on track. Perfect dry and fast and tons of top end with tires pumped hard and suspension in CC mode. Fun Bald speed run to finish. Quick 11.5 in hour but super speed fun.

Highland kills again. Runtastic MTB sucks

Stupid - gave new Runtastic MTB app a try instead of Strava and it totally killed my battery in less than an hour so no chart this week. Got in a good 15+ ? mile ride with John and DB Junior on Highland today. Killer run 70° partly sunny at 8:45 in the morning. Over 2 hours of twists and climbs that never end seemingly. Good fun except gotta duck more with head and shoulders when going under trees! Please Alleve.

Harsens doesn't get any better

20 solid all day. Bluebird sun. 84 degrees and clean shallow chest deep water. Perfect day at Harsens. About 12 guys out so no crowds and plenty of smiles. On water at 1pm and just barely made it back at 7pm when Craig and got caught way up on the river kiting the glass along the grass shoreline. Got solid overpowered hour on the 5.4 Atlas (4.7 would have been spot on) from 3 to 4pm as well as an hour ripping strapless on the surfboard. 12M depowered most all of this huge on water day. Spent by days end-Beer me! We need more days like this. So good. Harsens rules.

Bloomer follow up

Sun and 74. Great day to follow up to Highland and loop the baby rim here. Nice features and interesting first half. Second it just long and flowy but get you to an hour and about 8 miles. Perfect ride when time is short.