Kenny wrote:Thanks for the map. I haven't tried the blue area yet. I have always gone to the red area. Now I know better!
Justin, gap jumping on a landboard, that would be fun to watch! I will have to go out there with you sometime. Hopefully, if we don't get snow at least we will get frozen ground.
Ouch. I'm not sure I'd love to kite frozen ground. That would really hurt to fall on! But, I'm confident Burm will stay nice and soft well below freezing. Too much salt in that mud to really freeze up. If the drought continues, then we might get a chance to prove it before that spot muds out for the winter.
Yeah, and gapping that channel would be way cool. But, I'd still be an amateur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM-YtGhT ... re=relatedCheck out around 2:45. Oh, and if you want to be there to help drag my corpse back, you're welcome!
Kenny wrote:Found another location for riding at Lake Point. It is small, probably would only accomodate 5 or 6 riders, but the wind is better there due to the Venturi effect of the Oquirrh's. You get a nice wrap that boosts the wind speed a couple mph over Burmester. Same area that I kiteboarded several times last summer. The surface is about the same as Burmester, but it is 10 minutes closer to SLC.
Yeah, I heard Lakepoint has some landboard-able terrain, just never thought to check into it, but it's really too cold to get the typical mid-summer thermal kick that makes Burm worthwhile. Do you have a windmeter recommendation for scoping out Lakepoint? The Saltair meter (if it's even still up) is too hidden in the wind shadow of the mountains to be of much use.
What a desperate lot we are. No snow, icy cold water, and here we all are jonesin' to
landboard. Weird.
-J