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Snow Just A Four Letter Word
Gonzo-journalist offers nostalgic song and explains why the thrill of a snow day outweighs boredom of another Valentine's Day. |
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The winds of Mother Nature feed our passion to make ever lasting memories
It was about 12:30pm Easter Monday up at Willow Beach, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Not much wind, but building to about 15-20km/hr north easterly. It's foggy, so the visibility on the distant shoreline is gone. Nothing to be seen in the distance as the grey ice and patchy surface disappears into the fog. A few runs with my kite and skis offshore to check out the conditions left behind from a season of wind blown refrozen ice. The occasional piece of soft melting ice jutting from the surface was left between the occasional patch of slush/snow. Farther in the distance less and less snow patches yielding to a sold grey ice, now with an ever so thin patch of surface water from the recent warm temperatures. |
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Snowboarding
Whilst travelling in 2001, I had my first and definately not last, go at snowboarding. Rhona and I went to the Cardrona ski resort, a couple of hours from Queenstown in New Zealand. |
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The art of Kitesnowboarding
If you enjoy kitesurfing, making high jumps in moderate to strong wind, you definitely want to try kitesnowboarding. Kitesnowboarding is identical to kitesurfing especially if you use bidirectional board in kitesurfing. The difference is that you are likely to enjoy kitesnowboarding all by yourself on a snowy field or a frozen lake, there is nobody there to tell you not to jump high or to go fast and you don't have to wait 1/2 hour for the ski lift nor having to pay for it. |
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The growth of a winter wind rider and some common myths dispelled
Growing up in Ontario and attending high school, once or twice a year we got to go skiing. It was never quite enough to really get the skill down. It always felt year after year as though you were starting over again. But what excitement it was. As a child, skiing down those Ontario hills, they seemed so big. I think it just wet my appetite for more. |
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Snowboarding for the first time
Have you ever done something with a snowboard? Maybe just turned a somersault with it down the hill or something similar. If you haven’t, you’ve missed something really great. And it’s time to fix this mistake! You won’t regret it. |
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