jf777 said...Anyone out there have much experience kiting on snow? I've heard foil kites are better for several reasons but you can also get away with inflatables.
Peter Lynn just came out with a snow-specific kite called the 'Lynx'. Check it out at their website for more info:
www.peterlynnkiteboarding.comWould love to get my hands on one, what about you?
Get away with LEIS for snow kiting .You have got to be kiding.I have snowkited since 1996 .I have used just about everything out there from P lynn c quads to Ozones .i saw the light in our gusty conditions a few years back and I have been known as a huge supporter of foils particularly PL arc variants over the years for snow and water .basically I use a 12 m grif argo or trx and vary line length depending o wind strength (pretty much any of the current LEI SLE crop will do the job) im not into kiting in 100 km/h winds but hve with 10 m lines and can kite with 30 m lines with the same kite in 20 km/h winds .So where is the advantage .Gust reponse ,all round performance and safety .Sorry but having used current crop so called depower foils they dont come close in the depower stakes and subsequently have limited wind range and dubious safely .Launching in the middle of the window with a floppy spaghetti foil with lots of strings to get caught in ice is not my cup of tea.The only advantage a foil has is portability and no need for a pump but you will probably need at least 2 kites to cover the range of one LEI and that takes up room .A small hand pump will require less room too so foil = no advantage in my books .I have had no probs with the kite on nasty cauliflower ice getting cut up either I have found kite lines to be more fragile .Yep I know that lots of people use depowerable foils in the snow but this is my experience
If Peter had have gotten the full depower c quad proto to market that I flew many years ago they would have been an option. the 6 m version I flew had a massive range and was a revelation .too bad
