Ep. 108: Snow Kiting with Eric Bader
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Eric Bader from the Boulder Outdoor Center is back with Travis to talk about Snow Kiting this time. This is an awesome sounding adventure sport! Check it out.
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| 0:00.0 | So he's just plowing through, you know, up the hill through all this powder. |
| 0:03.1 | So he lets go. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, when he lets go, it releases, you know, that, you know, resistance that I had on the back. |
| 0:11.6 | So, but I'm going uphill, but yeah, he just shot me like a slingshot because now, you know, |
| 0:18.1 | it's half the weight on the kite. |
| 0:20.4 | And I just launched going up the hill with the kite pulling me up the hill, and he released that. |
| 0:43.5 | Adventure Sports Podcast, episode 108, snowkiding with Eric Bader. |
| 0:47.7 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | Brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:52.2 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to yet another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. |
| 1:18.9 | Eric Bader has been on with us a couple times in the past. Back in episode 25, he spoke about whitewater rafting. That was a great episode. |
| 1:24.6 | You probably should go back and check it out. Episode 43, he was back on talking about kiteboarding. |
| 1:27.8 | This is kite boarding in the water where you have a kite, |
| 1:32.9 | you know, which is a sail that pulls you along in the water and you're essentially on a wakeboard. |
| 1:40.3 | So with that in mind, I wanted to have Eric back on this show to talk about snow kiting. |
| 2:01.0 | Snow kiting is very similar to kiteboarding except, as you can imagine, you're on the snow. And since snow season is coming upon us pretty quickly, I wanted to have Eric on to tell us all about it. So Eric, welcome back for your third time. Well, thank you, Travis. It's always good to have you. All right, let's get into snow kiting. I was watching some videos on this, researching for it, |
| 2:06.5 | and it got me completely ramped up for snow season. I was telling Kurt all about what I was seeing on there. |
| 2:14.4 | Let's get started about and tell us about what it is that got you into snow kiting. How did you start from the beginning? |
| 2:19.8 | Well, these days, as you mentioned, if you go online and search for snow kiting, you will come up with some fantastic videos. |
| 2:22.5 | Really pretty about people skiing, snowboarding in the backcountry and getting powered |
| 2:27.0 | by the wind through what's called a power kite. |
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