Logan Canyon 1/31-2/2 12m

[Brian Fox]

I borrowed my friends sled and had some sick sessions up Logan Canyon. There is a canyon back in the south sink called Hodges canyon. I kited this two days in a row. It was light...10-15mph, but the feature seemed to be funneling most any west wind down it. There is a gradual slope on each side so it works kind of like a big halfpipe. I flew my 12m Frenzy & 161 board. My girlfriend was with me so it was hard to get too radical on the sled with two of us but i drug her up the mountain towards Peter Sinks until the deep pow and terrain made me turn back for fear of getting stuck. I did get up far enough to see some big cornices on the back side of two or three ridges I have been scoping out on google earth. So the next day...Mon i think...I left the girlfriend at home and recruited some sledneck friends to go up there with me-no shortage of those types around here! We made it up to Peter Sinks in about 10 min. from the parking lot. I think its around four miles or so? All three of the spots I've been looking at look like they see lots of wind but for the direction of the wind I chose this slope http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 75874&z=14 Wind was pretty good 12m and was fairly clean even though there is a ridge about a half mile to the west that is 150' or so higher than the slope. Tons of pow up there and most of it untracked. The sinks up there are crazy looking too. The slope I kited drops all the way into one of the lowest points in Peter Sinks so it does make for some funky wind as you get down aways on the slope, but I was able to launch from the very bottom of it and get to the top without too much effort. I was glad I brought friends as i got stuck a couple times on the sled! Who knows maybe they'll give up sledding and buy a kite?haha doubt it ...kite on!-Brian