James Brown "vividly" remembers the first time he went kiting across a blanket of snow with nothing but the forces of nature to carry him along. "I was hooked from that first day for sure," says the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A field of fresh snow tends to bring out the kid in many of us. When it comes to playing in the snow, kids are notorious for coming up with ...

As a kid, I loved to fly a kite. It was almost always at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine.For about a dollar, we could buy a kite. It would be in a bag with plastic and sticks and string. We ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado ” Dave Grossman likes to travel in snow with a kite. While skiers shiver in chairlifts being cabled up the mountain, Grossman glides up the hill on skis pulled by a kite. “The ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A February morning on Lake Minnetonka is calm and clear. But it's not long before you spot a streak of orange in the sky, and hear the rush of skis on snow. "That first winter I ...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — In the world of snowkiting, it doesn't get much better than southern Idaho's Camas Prairie. The high desert plain nestled between Mountain Home and Fairfield provides the ideal ...

Downhill skis are not just for going down hill. Wakeboards are not just for fun on the water. Kites aren’t just for kids. And frozen lakes are for more than just ice fishing. Bruce Skluzacek learned ...

Fifteen years ago, Aaron Sales was one of the first to kiteboard over snow. Now he's taken the sport to a new height. (Brad Gordon) On May 18, 1980, Aaron Sales was a 6-year-old kid living in ...

Last month, Icelanders Hoddi Tryggvason and Halldor Meyer completed a 4,200km circular snowkiting journey on Greenland’s ice sheet. The 50-day expedition began and finished near Tasiilaq on ...