Yearly Archives: 2010

31 posts

What are you planning for your next holiday?

Do something different this season: Why not join us in Iceland for a week long snowkiting adventure next May? We’ll be staying in luxury timber cabins and spending every-day snowkiting at the Langjokull Glacier, exploring over 1000km2 of perfect powder snow in a land where the sun never sets. Think […]

WISSA 2011 Web Site is Up!

Just got this link in the Google news feed.   Slava Maltsev (Murmansk, Russia) looks terrific on the title page! The site is still mostly empty so check it out again soon. The Finnish part of it has some info, you may try automated translation tools… I like the logo […]

Snow Kiting Distance World Record Smashed

Sebastian Copeland, and his partner Eric McNair-Landry (pictured right) have just smashed the Snow Kiting world record by traveling over 595 kilometers in 24 hours. The two are currently on trek across Greenland to raise awareness for global warming. The team had experienced some bad weather that saw them pinned […]

Simon Gill wins World Champion title in Kite Class

  Simon Gill Simon Gill of Montreal has clenched the title of World Champion in the Kite Class for a second time! In addition, he is also the winner of the Coupe de Quebec – North America’s most advanced snow kite racing venue. This is also Gill’s second time winning […]

Snow Sailing in April

This past Saturday, Marcel Bradette, Jocelyn Marceau, and Langis Caron scored some sweet ice on Lac Jacques Cartier located in the Reserve Faunique de les Laurentides just along the route 175 that connects the Saguenay, Lac Saint Jean region to Quebec City and the outside world. The park (and lake) […]

Purple Panic

Purple Panic is a 10M JoJo with 70 meters of line. EVERY time it comes out – it makes drama! Charlie Meding shot this on Lake Sunapee in almost NO wind. Still there was drama. He sent the kite north while still skiing south and got ripped several meters off […]