Utah Windriders Association

I posted this on the Utah Snowmobile Association website yesterday, so far no one has even replied to it. Don't trust snowmobilers!



I don't own a snowmobile and rarely interact with snowmobilers. I am a
>snowkiter who was at Ant Flat yesterday 25 Feb. I was with a beginner
>and we had 2 kites to fly. We parked at the bottom of the Hardware
>ranch road and walked to the 1/4 mile to the top of the rise. We took
>the kites out of the backpacks and launched them. I placed the 2
>backpacks at the top of the rise with one of the shoulder straps around
>a 4 foot high fence post and went riding. 20 minutes later I came back
>and the backpacks were gone. The packs barely had any falling snow on
>them, so they didn't look abandoned. My name and phone # was on the
>outside of the packs and no one called last night.
>They are Red/Black with the words Ozone Frenzy on them. If you see
>them, let me know 801-475-7788.
>
>This has left me with a great first impression of snowmobilers. I have
>left my kite bag at Pineview and Powder Mountain for hours before and
>no one touched it.

Augie,

I am sorry to hear about the theft of your pack. However, you can hardly lump all snowmobilers into one group and generalize that we should not trust snowmobilers. Snowmobiling is enjoyed by tens of thousands of people in Utah. Most of the snowmobilers are good, honest people (some are kiters). Of course, with a group that large you are going to have some rotten apples, but don't let that sour you on snowmobilers as a whole.

Kenny

Augie,

I am sorry to hear about the theft of your pack. However, you can hardly lump all snowmobilers into one group and generalize that we should not trust snowmobilers. Snowmobiling is enjoyed by tens of thousands of people in Utah. Most of the snowmobilers are good, honest people (some are kiters). Of course, with a group that large you are going to have some rotten apples, but don't let that sour you on snowmobilers as a whole.

Kenny

I know they are not all bad but I was thinking maybe I could shame someone inot giving me the pack back.

I kinda wish they would have gotten a kite in the pack because they probably would have tried to fly it without lessons. Maybe I could have caught the thief then, after the accident hit the news.