Cumbria Kite Club Photo Gallery

Ok, not free flight but I've posted it anyway. Patty took us up in a plan from Carlisle airport to check out potential snowkiting locations from the air. Superb.

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Again, not free flight. Some aerial shots from Chris Jones Gyrocopter over the ski tow at Alston.

http://www.chrisjonesgyroplanes.co.uk/

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Some shots of the new Gin Zulu II in flight. Pilots Sandwith, Scott and Lawson.

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Some photo's from my recent trip to Le Morne in Mauritius.

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Ade F, Martin, Scotty and I had a trip to Tiree, superb weekend. Super windy everyday. 53 mph max gust on one of the days when we were meant to get on the boat back and the ferry wouldn't run. Pretty knarly conditions.

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Some photo's of a couple of sessions at Anthorn when I wasn't riding. Great location for almost any direction giving flat water conditions in certain areas depending on the wind direction. Can only be riden at high tide and gives a nice change to other locations we use at high tide.

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Mark Lawson, Niall Paterson and I headed to Tarifa for 5 days in July. We met up with Martin Sandwith who'd been flying in the British Championship at Piedrahita but it was blown out so he headed down to Tarifa to do a bit of kiting. As it turns out that was a wise decision at the kiting conditions were perfect. We also hooked up with Sam Teplicky who's teaching out there. We took a bunch on the new Gin Nazca II's and North Bullet boards to try out. It was an epic trip, definately one of the best I've been on.

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A few of us went down to the BKSA comp at Barrow - Earnse Bay on Walney Island. Mark Paterson from Haverigg was entering and was the only Cumbrian rider in the amateurs as Pete was injured. He did pretty well and was robbed in our opionion as the other riders in his heat didn't land hardly anything and certainly nothing more technical, whereas Patty stuck just about everything. The wind was building throughout the day and we had a really good windy and sunny session in the afternoon. Excellent day. Cheers to Gary for making it happen.

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The Haggis run is a crossing of the Solway firth from Allonby to Southerness Point. A bunch of the Cumbrian riders headed over there and back. We got a fair bit of local news coverage and we were supported by Maryport Inshore Rescue. We also did a training day with the MIR team to give them an insight into how to handle a kitesurf rescue.

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Peter, Andy, Ade G, Ade F, Martin and I had a trip to Tiree, bit of a nightmare with the ferry breaking down and it taking us over 24 hours to get to the Island was frustrating, especially as we got in sight and turned back. We had one epic day though and some great weather, not so many photo's as we were just riding!

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Ade Fisher and I had a stroll up to the summit of Raise late one afternoon in the hope of a little wind. There was very little wind and it was super cold up there. Perfect high alpine conditions with powder snow on the summit. My favourite time to be in the mountains - no better place to be. Superb.

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Some pics from the snowboarding and snowkiting trip to Serre Chevalier and the Col du Lautaret.

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A few of us headed up to the Alston area only to be evicted by the gamekeeper who wasn't happy about a load of kites that look like a large raptor to the grouse that were slowly returning to the moorland after spending most of the winter in the low lying areas due to the severe frost. Good spot though but we'd need permission to ride there again unfortunately....

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Martin, Ade and I had a 5 day trip to the French Alps. We stayed in Tignes, France, but visited a couple of other areas on the trip. We spotted an area whilst landing in Geneva to snowkite - Mont Salève so we got off the plane and drove straight there. Little bit of a hike in and we were rewarded with a huge open area with reasonable wind. Great start. We checked out La Rosiere and La Thuile and did a little kiting at the Petit St Bernard pass. We had the pièce de résistance on the final day at Tignes where we snowkited on the Grande Motte glacier on untouched powder.

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Location: Raise Mountain - Helvelyn Massif
Conditions - Alpine - Powder Snow - Wind SW - 10 increasing 25 mph.

What a day. Looked like the weather was going to turn bad but it never did. Sunshine almost all day. Good wind, snow perfect. Ride down at the end of the day from Raise Summit was epic.

For sure one of the best days of the year.

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Ade, JK and I headed up to Alston for a snowkiting session. We hooked up with the Haverigg lads Patty and Tys. Pete, Paul and Andy turned up after having done a bit of a cross country marathon to get to where we were. Decent day although the flat light was a nightmare and vis in the snow storms.

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