The Snowkiting Mecca
By Rocky Thompson on December 13th, 2006
A professor once told me that everyone in North Dakota would suffocate if the wind didn’t blow for day. He said they don’t have enough vegetation to produce oxygen for the 20 or so people who live there. It doesn’t surprise me, those bastards in Dakota Lite can’t even carve a mountain with presidents’ heads to get people to stop on the drive through.
Anyway, two guys are going to snowkite across the entire state in January. That should give you some idea of what people mean when they say, “open spaces.†The snowboard trip and its documentary are aptly named, “To Cross the Moon.â€
via Gear Junkie
[...] Throw away your snowboard and season pass. The Scarpar is an all-terrain motorized board slated to come out in 2007 that replaces the need for mountains, people will be flocking to the wide open terrain of North Dakota. The Scarpar is marketed towards snowboarders, skaters, surfers, ATV riders, and snowmobilers—which are all such closely related sports that I don’t see much of a problem. [...]