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Solomon makes a skate blade on which you mount a standard cross-country ski binding. These make skate ski boots into speedskates. Gear West is out of them right now due to the high demand. According to the folks at Gear West, they are better than speedskates for lake skiing because they smooth out t...

I guess we're not the only ones wishing we had better kiting conditions. After 4 days of waiting around for wind they decided to throw in the towel and come home. Latest news: Thursday 02/01/2002. Call from Antarctica via Iridium phone On 1 January 2003, Jamie Young and Brian Cunningham had to abort...

The expedition site is: http://www.icekites.com. Kites are supplied by Advance Kites. The latest news from them is: Monday 30/12/2002. E-mail from Antarctica via Iridium phone at 14.59 Arrived at the South Pole yesterday 29th December after a long flight from Patriot Hills in the Single Otter. We pa...

ET, I'd say use whatever you feel to most comfortable moving on and allows you maintain the best edge against the pull of the kite. For bare ice, skates would be good if the ice is smooth enough... but I've been finding that I can actually do pretty well on sharp skies (and I'm crappy on skates). I ...

Just got back from Mahtomedi. The snow cover was actually pretty good. Still large ice patches, but the snow islands were pretty good size and close together. Mike W. was going vertical out on his 7.5 Mossy. I forgot my control bars at home and Mike was gracious to let me use his 4.9 Blade & rig...

It looks like he's climbed up there to untangle lines after a kite crash. That'd be me.

I like how the video captures the excitement, peace, freedom and solitute of winter kiting simultaniously. Best video yet.

Hey Mike, I just bought a Flysurfer 9M Warrior from the same guy you got your 16M from. I am so charged!! This is almost double the size of the one and only kite I used last year on the snow. I'm not only psyched about the range and power possibilities, but also Flysurfer's emphasis on control and s...

Kit-Kat & Advance is setting up for a Christmas crossing of the Antarctica. A 1000 Km route. The expedition web site: http://www.icekites.com

.... and the ice was smooooth

I checked the ice at Lake Josephine (between 694 & 36 on Lexington) today from the landing on the NE corner. There were several fishing holes drilled and two portable houses out there. The ice was around 5 inches.

I stopped by White Bear Lake this afternoon. Ramsey Beach had a sample hole drilled about 20 yards from shore at the boat landing. The ice was just under 4 inches, but was nice and smooth under the light snow... a very skateable surface :) . I would expect the channel to be thinner. I also stopped a...

What's the word on ice thickness for city lakes? Has anyone been out to do some test holes or kiting around here? WBL, Calhoun, Forest, Waco, Medicine, Buffalo, Goose, Turtle... others?

Just had to try out more of this fun stuff. Well done, guys!

I really like the way this site works. Well done guys!!!

Are there any plans to pull in the old text chunks of Knowledge, Chat Archives, and Stories? No big rush, but there was some good stuff in there.

Again... Wow! I really like what you've done.

Barry P