The Kiteboarder - September 17, 2014

FEATURED THIS ISSUE:

PIPELINE – It’s been 27 years since Robby Naish’s iconic windsurfing session on the North Shore’s hollowed Pipeline. John Bilderback was there in ’87 and in this issue kitesurfing’s leading image-smith captures another hallmark of Pipe history.

BEYOND BEER PONG – Billy Bosch is working hard to introduce organization, more events and prize money to seduce a larger population of university students into the addictive grasp of kiteboarding.

KATABATIC CIRCLES – Flemish explorer Dixie Danscoer had a theory about using the curvature of polar winds to circumnavigate the world’s largest ice sheets by kite. The first attempt in Antartica failed but in this issue Dixie and expedition partner Eric McNair Landry towed 400lb sleds past a network of abandoned cold war radar sites while dodging Hercules ice runways and vicious ice formations called sastrugi to circumnavigate the continent of Greenland.

LARGER THAN LIFE – Colleen Carroll tears a page out of her travel notes to highlight the addition of Aaron Hadlow to the north team after 13 years with Flexifoil, Craig Cunnigham’s 74 foot Jibstruction addition to the Hood River Slider Project and a road trip down the west coast to to explore the larger than life beauty of San Francisco’s Golden Gate.

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS – Freelance photographer and digital media specialist Jen Jones created a video mini-series to highlight the talented female athletes hailing Hood River as a summertime home.

SEA CHANGE – What exactly is adventure, and what drives us in search for more? Tkb’s Amy Robb lands aboard a 38′ foot catamaran in St. Martin, and with the help of professional kiteboarder Damien Leroy, explores the ever-changing (and always constant) nature of adventure.