is anyone up for a snowboarding trip this weekend?
I plan to drive from melbourne (greensborough) to mt hotham early saturday morning, returning either saturday or sunday night.
So far im going alone so to share the travel cost would be nice, i have room for 2 in the car.
Greg
if you'd given a bit more notice i would have been in for sure - if you plan another trip in the next few months let me know. keen to hit falls creek/hotham/buller/whatever but need a bit of advance warning
thanks to the BF appeal we get a week at Bright starting tomorrow.
have borrowed my sons snow board.
take a 7 and 10m Bandit Dos.
Now where do I go?
Falls Creek seems to be the place to go. Got to get one of the lifts up the top and you can play on the plateau out the back. There is a snowkiting school at Falls Creek too. I hope you have a waist harness and Flow bindings as I had a go at in France with my seat harness (which I no longer use) and my Burton Strap bindings and it was tricky to say in the least. But I am keen to give it a go again when I get back from PNG.
Why get a lift? Cant you head around to the lake and head for the plateau on foot / kite power?
Havnt kited there yet but would have thought that way you would avoid any lift usage?
I don't know any ski fields anywhere that let you kite up their pistes... Safety issues. You can probably get a one way pass to get you up the mountain, but at Thredbo they stopped it because people were dropping their gear off and riding on the upper slopes without a valid pass if the wind wasn't in.
Best to ring the Falls Creek kite school and find out. If anyone does it can they share the details on here?
I dunno about you guys but i'd be pretty piste off if i went all the way there and the wind didn't kick in
If I went all the way up there and the wind didn't kick in, it wouldn't worry me. Would just take to the piste like there was no tomorrow, then head to an Apres bar and get piste like there was tomorrow ;-)
I would consider more backcountry work if a skido was allowed however.
Hey Mr Float, what kite did you use?
Sounds like you had the week I'm hoping for at the start of this Sept. A few days at Thredbo groomed then a couple where I can escape to the back country under wind power. Ya gotta love the pristine feel you get up there. I have contacts at K7 adventures so who knows what else we may get up to!
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why spoil a perfectly awesome sport by ****arseing around with a kite????
scooting around on flatlands in the wind - yawn. don't you get enough of kiting on the water?.-reminds me of a bunch of potheads trying to make bongs out of everything they see! Oh look a wheelchair. maybee I can tow myself orund on it with my DOS.
Has anyone tried kiting behind____ (insert anything here) Just because you have one interest, can't you leave it behind and have a break from it? If I was going to the snow I would be leaving my kite at home, praying for no wind and purchasing a lovely lift ticket.
When i worked up the snow i used it for a break in boarding all the time, although out of the whole season i got out 10 times shows you to not go to the snow just to kite in australia.Must admit it is pretty gay though.Although you can travel along way in a short time.
I think it would be fun, but it would suck if the wind died. I guess if you don't go too far then than shouldn't be a problem but if you wanna do the backcountry thing i reckon i'd leave my board at home and put on some cross country/telemark skiis, at least then you could ski out rather than have to walk through deep snow should the wind drop. You could attack some nice gullies, Mt Bogong in Victoria springs to mind as it would be great for this, could even camp out at Cleve Cole hutt.
I HOPE WE CAN STILL KITE THE SUMMIT THIS YEAR, ITS A CHEEP PLACE TO KITE IF THE WIND IS UNDER 15KNT.MAY BE ILL GET TO JUMP THE ROAD AT THE BOTTOM THIS YEAR.
Just spent the weekend boarding at Hotham. Perfect conditions on Saturday terrible yesterday. As much as I love snowboarding, snowkiting is equally fun but for different reasons as outlined by Mr Float above. Spent the week at Thredbo with Mr Float and Mike last year and had a ball (both riding the resort and snowkiting). Used my 13m PL Venom.
Had a week in Mt Olympus, NZ in July this year. Unfortunately the wind wasn't in our favour, 6 weeks of perfect conditions leading up to our arrival then the wind died and/or changed direction for the week that we were there. The terrain was unlike anything I've ever seen though so made for some excellent boarding and without the crowds you get at a commercial resort.
Keen to know if anyone has been kiting out the back of the Orchard at Hotham? How did you get there? Do you need to buy a full day lift pass? Is anyone planning a weekend trip before the season is out? If so, I'm keen. Have car and kite, will travel.
Speaking of snowkiting.... Mr Float - are we still on for a trip in September?
hey, i went to the orchard years ago now, but needed to catch a couple of lifts to get there. Its awesome place to snowboard but not sure bout kiting :)
The Orchard,otherwise known as Mt Loch, is the only place to kite on Hotham,You can go on the summit but not much room. By the way i dont think you can compare the 2 sports of snowboarding and snowkiting, they are nothing alike. Snowkiting being the lesser gay brother of landboarding.Snowboarding being a cool sport on its own.
Gayness is in the arms of the beholder, plus there is a seperate forum for snowkiting.why dont you use it. I am sorry that you feel that aussie resorts are sh!t.Have you never had a good day on Aussie snow? Plus i have tried landboarding,snowkiting and snowboarding so my ignorance comes from expierence.I will watch how i express myself because the word gay seems to touch a nerve with you. What i meant was boring.And Australia is such an awesome spot to snowkite, with its predictable winter weather and nice flat terrain. I do appolagise for the use of Gay again, i must learn to accept you fun rainbow loving guys.
