2/24 Chicken Creek East 12.5 Montana

[mike loeser]

Got there a bit early, about 1:30 and waited for the wind to pick up. It was light for a bit and then started to fill in as the wife was calling me home. Two others showed up as I was leaving. Didn't catch who they were, as I was trying to high tail it home (Orange 12m? Frenzy and a Rasta Frenzy). Wish I could've stayed a bit longer the wind was finally picking up. Nice to do those three mile reaches across the lake! The snow was a bit of dust on crust. You could hear the snow break under you and it sounds like the ice cracking. A bit freaky.
Is Chicken Creek the highest wind speed spot at Strawberry? I would rather kite at the River because there is more variation in terrain, also tons more snowmobiles. It seems to me that when the wind is light you can at least get going at Chicken Creek. Looks like the script kiddies got to the website, so hopefully someone will help me out with that question.
Mike

[Eric Gustafson]

Mike,
We rode at CCeast for an hour @ lunch, nw backed around to sw and rode at the Marina for 3 hours in the pm.
Strawberry river has been working better most of the time when its N or NW but its worth the drive to CCeast or west to make the call as it has been better there. It was mostly a snow coverage issue until the ugly Hi pressure moved on.
Eric