Tribe.net. Local Connections $item.owner.firstName http://kitesurfing.tribe.net/thread/2ecc9089-51a8-470d-95e2-8c3c07610953#663c701e-3f3e-4114-8f41-a3577ccf9633 2007-10-16T10:54:48Z 2007-10-16T10:54:48Z

My son and his girlfriend are feeling the same way.. though they have going to Anegada to look forward to in December. http://www.diveanegada.com/DiveAnegada_Frontsite.html they plan on snowboarding too. Thanks for sharing.

$item.owner.firstName 2007-10-16T10:54:48Z P-Air http://kitesurfing.tribe.net/thread/2ecc9089-51a8-470d-95e2-8c3c07610953#48e800ad-9881-495d-a7a8-9eeb1efa49e8 2007-10-16T07:16:03Z 2007-10-16T07:16:03Z

Friday 10/5/07, one of my good kiting buddies and I bolted out of the office by noon as the swell was on and the winds appeared to be cooperating down at Waddell & Scotts Creeks. By the time we got to Waddell, we decided that with only two other kiters in the water every one else was down at Scotts so we'd hang out here to avoid the crowds. Turns out the other two kiters were some dear friends that we usually hang out with at Sherman Island. We caught it perfectly, and while it was just short of epic, the swell got close to overhead in some areas and the winds stayed mostly in the 20+ mph range for at least 2 hours, before settling back to something flukey, gusting from what felt like 10 to 30 mph. We knew it then, that the season was slowly coming to an end. It wasn't clear that we would get many other days. Fortunately, that Saturday we managed to get some late winds at Crissy Field, just enough to power our 12m kites, but it was certainly the low end of the range in a flood tide, and we were now even more convinced that the season was surely letting us know that it was all she wrote. And with that whimper, it's all coming to an end. This weekend, I checked out the Crissy Exploratorium cam and could see 3 or 4 of the Crissy regulars out there, but the wind seemed less than inspiring, and it's with that that I look forward to putting the bang into the end of my season. Yes, I'm heading out to Kauai for 3 days, then to a conference on the Big Island for 4 more, where I hope to put my season to rest properly. It's always a sad time for me, to see the season come to an end, but such is the cycle of this sport. Sure, there may be a couple of unpredictable days here and there due to approaching storm winds, but the cold tends to send my mind to snowy hills and the thoughts of snowboarding. I may even motivate myself for some snowkiting in Utah again this year. It was a blast last year, though I only did it one weekend. As a good friend put it, "it's like this new sport that you know how to do from your first try like you'd been doing it all your life" :) Anyway, I was feeling a lil' melancholy over this whole season ending thing, and I thought I'd share. Peace to all.

P-Air 2007-10-16T07:16:03Z