My 21m ultralight foil kite has me riding on a small twin tip and jumping when the riders with lightwind strutless inflatables and foilboards are having trouble. Big ultralight foil kites are still the best lightwind option of any kite. They do take a different set of skills to fly though.
Did you ever convert yours? I wouldn't want to use it on water but I could see it being fun on a high wind day snowkiting. I started redoing the bridle on mine eyeballing it last year based off a similar kite, but other things came up and I never finished it.
Loveland pass last July, and now back at it again in October. Just missed August and September this year.
Conditions: had to pack down an area with my splitboard sidestepping and mark a few rocks. Unlimited rocks to hit / jib / trash your rock board but the season has started!
Winter here and we either get just enough wind to launch a foil kite or it's nuking 25+ knots. So sadly after a month I have still only flown my 6m once... I've used my 4m a few times snowkiting, when its nuking its a rocket ship with super fast loops, but it has a nice consistent pull uphill like ...
I made the same kite years ago, started converting it from a fixed bridle to a depower system for snowkiting, I think the plans were from wingine.nl but that site seems gone now. When snowkiting season ended I never got around to finishing the new bridle. I was just going to eyeball the speed system...
Nice! Still getting after it in summit too, coverage was good this afternoon but the wind got weird after 30 min or so. Lots of recent wet slides, watch out for cornices.
Get a big bar with a very long throw then set it so when you pull it all the way in the kite stalls. I've had times with my 18m sonic, 20m aero, and 21m aerov2 when the wind changed (typical in the mountains) and I was WAY overpowered getting back to my launch area. The trick at that point is: 1. Ke...
I got my 8m and took it out snowkiting yesterday evening. Inflates easier than the Aero v2, really smooth power delivery and you don't have to worry about redirecting it back during jumps as quickly as you do with race foils. I flew it on my 60cm bar with line extensions (bigger bar and longer lines...
Thanks for all the info everyone! I'm still snowkiting every day and probably will be for another month or two (there's still like a 10ft+ base above 12k ft) but one of these summers when we have a bad snow year think I'm going to get one of those 3 in ones.