Shorts and t-shirt! - Snowkite Session 43

I've been kind of busy, with my brother coming to visit for a week, so my latest sessions have been stored away in folders waiting to go on the blog. Time to get back on track, so here's what I've been up to on the 22nd of March: with a nice forecast for a Spring session, I headed up to our usual spot with Benoit, the "flying machine"...

...Banjoo, our club's "Champion"...

...and a bunch of other friends. With a southwesterly capricious wind, we decided to find a nice uphill section to play with the ascending currents, to avoid fighting all day long with light upwind stretches.

That was the best bet, since we had a lot of fun flying downhill and generally jumping back and forth all day long!

Benoit worked his GoPro and editing magic to offer us a very cool video of the day...

As you can see in the video, I kept a promise I'd made to myself, and rode for about 2h in shorts, t-shirt and sunglasses... Boy, did that make me think of the water sessions soon to come! Banjoo had made some pictures too, but his SD card busted, so the only ones of me are a little "low quality", taken by Cyril with his phone...

 

Snow, friends, an helicopter and a broken leg... - Snowkite Session 42

Last Friday's session started as many others: a bunch of friends decided to get together and enjoy the fresh snow and sunny conditions in a good mood. To be sure we got the best winds, we decided to get a ride on the ski-lifts and start on the top of the Chalmazel ski station.

All was going great and, around midday, we already had a good amount of kms on the gps... Moreover, it was great to see some faces I hadn't seen for ages, like Pierrot, and meet some new ones.

 

But, following a bad fall due to a poorly calculated jump, my friend Flippo broke a leg. Fortunately, since we were a big group of merry folks, we managed to call for rescue and keep him in good spirits until he got a police helicopter ride to the hospital!

 



Not counting Flippo's injury, it was a great kite day, finished of by a very cool sunset ride filmed and edited by Benoit...