Utah Windriders Association

Lets start with drive up spots.

1. Rush Lake
2. Skyline
3. Pow Mow
4. Strawberry
5. POM - Point of the mountain
6. Monte Cristo
7. Bear Lake
8. Park City
9. Hogans Pass
10. Sulphur Creek
11. Jordanelle
12. Deer Creek

Anyone have anything to add? Theres room for more detail, Like Skyline and Strawsa have tons of areas within themselves.

Windzup,
Brian Schenck
http://www.ozonesnowkites.com

Hey Brian. Add one more spot to your list. Pineview Reservoir. Between windsurfers beach and the spillway is the Dam Keepers House. Here in the middle of the channel are winds between 5 and 12 miles an hour just about every morning there is an inversion. The inversions are frequent and happen during clear cold nights, easy to predict. A cold clear night after a warm day means higher winds. The area is only a few hundred yards across but you can work your way up or down from there. If the ice is covered with powder, bring a big kite. This is the perfect place for beginners to dial in there skills.

lesvierra,

Thank you for the info. Does this happen when we have the long, nasty inversion caused by a general high pressure over the region? If so, you have given us all a way to get a good windfix during the nastiest part of the winter.

To add to Brian's list:
1. Salt Ponds - though I have yet to meet anyone else that has kited there in the water
2. Antelope Island on the GSL
3. Grantsville
4. Farmington Bay (for a limited season only)
5. Willard Bay
6. Yuba
7. Morton Evaporation ponds - okay I have only kited there once, but it still counts
8. Mona
9. Herriman Fields - a couple years ago we had enough snow in the valley to make it happen
10. East Canyon
11. Mountain Dell Reservior
12. Lake Powell - okay this one is not a drive up spot, but I wanted to see if I could match the same number of locations as Brian with some more obscure locations.

You got it Kenny. There can be no wind anywhere, not even locally. We get a strong inversion up here. It can be 10 to 15 degrees warmer up at Wolf Creek than on the ice at the reservoir. Then around 8 in the morning, the cold air decides to head on down to Ogden. The air pours over consistenly with out any gusts. It is cool. The wind is light, but if you can get your kite up, you can usually keep it up and get going when the wind is the lightest. An East wind might help things. I use a frenzy 10m which works pretty good most of the time. Some times I get bogged down in powder. I had my yarga 15m out the other day and had a blast. I had to ski up wind to get it up though. Ive never used a 14m frenzy, but image it would perfect here (think you can send one up Brian??). When you park near the Dam Keepers house, dont get discouraged when you dont feel much. It gets good in the funnel down on the ice. If you're own your way to Powder Mnt, you can look at the ice fisherman. If everybody is hunched over facing the dam, the wind is on.
Les

Hey Les,
Interesting to know that you have also snowkited on west winds.
I've only done the easterlies.
I have used this link:
http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/ ... time=LOCAL
it is in Weber Canyon,
and is only kinda helpful.
I have found if it is around 20 E
it can be blowing at the dam neck.
Been kiting there when the temp was 0 degree,
at sunrise.
a couple of weeks ago.


-Marty

windzup wrote:9. Hogans Pass

Windzup,
Brian Schenck
http://www.ozonesnowkites.com

Brian,
Where is Hogan's Pass?

-Marty

Hogans Pass:

Say you are at Skyline, and decide to continue over hwy 31 to Huntington. From there head south on hwy 10 towards I-70. At I-70 look for 'fremont jct." and signs for hwy 72 south towards Loa. You have to drivewest on 70 for a couple miles to find the off-ramp, and then double-back on the frontage road to catch hwy 72.
Once heading south on hwy 72, you will start to gain altitude as you head towards Hogans pass. It is also called Thousand Lake mountain area. There is open sage brush terrain, and a big snow fence near the top. Its not like Skyline or Strawbs, but it sits around 8,000+ msl and is another area with similarities, its also in the middle of nowhere!

Windzup,
Brian Schenck