HI So Good 7m starts 2017

Woo 9m and 42 degrees to start WSW 20-25 first 2 hours turned 30+++ by noon and snow with 30-35 degrees. So powered on the Duke but it worked with 7m switch pulling like crazy. Kuban, Keith and I for most of day has it to ourselves. So happy I moved down to 7 as it was gusting to 35-40 by 2pm with others having to be held down. Great start with 5 hours kiting. Alleve and ordering 7mm gloves - the 5mm only work to 40's.

Bloomer worth the ride!

Wet and soggy was the guess with Rain days before and 35 degrees. Not worth driving anywhere right? So let's bike to Bloomer. Mostly dry getting there except for final wet 1/4 mile into back park entrance. Very icy on main trails in from all the walkers. Go and check the singletrack?--- it's 80% dry and still frozen. Booya we ride. Really good 2 upper rim loops with hardly any mud. Even the normal dirt/mud off camber trail was dry. Totally worthy near 20 miles and 2 hours. And had the tires at a very hard 12psi which seemed to even work well on trail. The Lou and Bud Surly's are the bomb. 35 degrees worked out this time-get it while you can.

Yuge Day! 2 MTB and SnowKite

9am and 15 degrees. Great big exhausting day starting at Highland. Took a chance going to Highland and sort of paid off as to the trail being dry 2-3" powder packed. Started on A and there was probably 10-12" of riding track - very grippy with tires at 5/6psi Surly Lou and Buds. Next on to B section - now the track is a very narrow 6-10" and tons of hills and downs. Made it up most all the hills but literally in top two granny gears for everything with the thick snow. I get to C trail crossing and no one has ridden it and all roads lead to B cut-off. Going that way out and thru to the A trailhead is fast and miraculously fall free. An hour and twenty minutes to go 6.2 miles very slow but that's snow biking. 11am and off to Pontiac figuring a lot of fat bikes have ridden there and it will be nice second ride.... but only 2 fatties had ridden it. Even more snow and tough riding blazing my own path through 3" of powder most of the time. 4 miles in 40 miles and exhaustion makes me bail at the halfway point and ride back 2 miles on the road. Everyone must be riding Island lake and Maybury?...

1pm and TJ at Cass rigging 13 = time to snowkite. I packed early in AM and decided to only bring 12 and not the 9m.... however all the kites look alike and I grabbed the 9 and not the 12... didn't realize this until I was packing the kite at 5pm to leave! Winds were S 10-15 and the lake was powder coated with 1-3" over 80% of surface. Somehow the 9 worked even though I had about dozen times where there were dead holes and the kite fell out of the sky. Got top speed of 24mph and logged over 30 miles in 2.5 hours. Really fun and only one fall trying to jump and spin. Wearing waist harness in place of seat hate the jumping aspect of not sitting down while getting lifted, seat to tight fit in ski clothes. All done by 5pm with legs fully toasted from doing all the work. Alleve and beer, beer, beer.