Examining Utahs Post Frontal North and East winds

[windzup]

Friday was a perfect day for exploring Utah's post frontal Snowkiting options...a topic we know little about. With crews heading in every direction, we should gain some good feedback from this weekend.

The facts - After storms the wind is usually lighter and often comes in north or east directions.

The idea - learn what current locations are good for those directions and explore new areas that these differing directions open up.

The Goal - Determine the most ideal locations for Snowkiting during these after storm conditions.

On Friday, three locations were inspected...Skyline, Strawbs & Monte:

Skyline - Morning thru 2pm had strong North NE winds (7-10m kites) 2-4pm mellowed a bit, but still powered on 10-14m kites. Died off near 4pm with light NW flow. Sweetest riding ever on cornices in every direction. Skyline is good for any direction and seems to funnel the winds thru its bowls creating amazing vertical lift.

Strawbs - Hopefully others will pipe in with personal feedback...word I heard is that winds were light and peaked around 2pm...but it didn't sound promising. I'm curious to hear the exact velocity and direction at Strawbs... maybe we can determine that Strawbs doesn't work on east winds?!?

Monte - Augie and Chris were taking sleds in deep to explore Monte's options... any word boyz? I'm assuming it was epic.

Please jump in with any feedback:!:

[bordy]

Staw was bunk on Friday, Very light and only a few reaches. wind was gone by noon some of the fisherman said it blew hard all morning.

Thursday howevery was juiced Kite size was as much as you could hold down. There was everything from 7.5-11m frenzys 9-16m waroos 10-14m c-kites. I could have been plenty powered on a 9 waroo but hung on to a 12 depowered most of the day.

It was of course NE.