4 Inches With More On Back Order

Woke up to 4 inches of the fresh stuff and it looks like at least one more snowfall warning for this area by the end of the week. We will be out here this weekend for sure. Wind has been consistant the last few days as well. Anyone who can do Sunday for sure should drop me an email by the end of the week.

Hunting It Down

This weekend a few of us are going to try to shred the last of our relatively untouched areas and make use of what is left of the white stuff. Those interested can send me an e-mail and if the wind is good we can send King Andy to Mexico with one last great session.

Weather Tool

In case some of you are wondering where we are getting our weather data from, some sky watcher (think telescopes and space) in our area has created a graphical representation of regularly updated weather data from the Canadian Meteorological Center. Most of the time it has been quite accurate and even a little lower than conditions turn out to be. If you have time, visit the link to the right (Clear Sky Crossfield), check it out and send him an e-mail with props. It is just one more tool we have at our convenience.

Next Session

Conditions in our area are looking weak for Sunday but we still have some white stuff and the wind always comes in stronger than predicted. Hoping to go out on Sunday so anyone interested needs to e-mail me by Saturday, 21:00hrs.

We also have an alternate that we need to recon just 30 minutes NE of here so if conditions
are not favorable, we will be there. Smaller but almost guaranteed wind.

Contribute

Welcome.

The purpose of this site is to inform and grow our community of kiteboarders that have formed out of the riding and hooking up in the area between Calgary and Red Deer. Unfortunately it is also borne out of the frustration of using some of the kiting forums. With so many views and rarely a respone, it is easy to see that many want to do it but few want to contribute to it.

Contribute to what you ask? Well as I see it, this sport of Kite-(insert form of riding here)-ing may not be in it's infancy but it sure is young. Not just a lot of new development in the technology but we are seeing cross-over sport styles like wakestyle on snowboards, and even park riding. This is cool, this is a cool time. The sport is about to go big like snowboarding did in the late 80's.

So contribute? Or should I say "BE" a part of the sport? I have met so many people lately that are just catching on, moving up from trainers, wanting to know more, and spend the time it takes to ride well. Unfortunately just going to a forum to try to hook up with a few other kiters doesn't work that well.

And what about the someone who is looking for something different and hasn't even seen a kite? We have had so many people stop and ask, "where do I get one of those"? Not, "what is it"? Most people don't care what it is, they want to do it. It looks exciting.

Crossfield Power kiting is about contribution. We are a community interested in growing the sport in our area, showing others what it is about, and having a blast while we do it. We will be posting demo times and locations for this spring in Airdrie, Crossfield, and area. We will have demo kites for use and for sale. As well, we are now a dealer for HQ powerkites.de so anyone interested in purchasing new gear can come right to us.

Like I said, it is about the sport, and about the fun. There's lots to go around!