Kiteboarding pt II

I started off the day fully intending to be good and not kiteboard today. I even took the important step of not packing any of my gear, however fortune smiled upon me: The wind picked up, my shoulder stopped throbbing and Chloe had a doctors appointment so she brought my gear to Alameda. For once, the traffic wasn't horrendous and I got to Alameda in good time. Strangely the wind hadn't died in between when I checked it on the web and when we arrived so Chloe and I suited up and got into the water. It was a perfect day: lots of wind, and I immediately went upwind without too much trouble. I watched Chloe get up on her board quite a few times on both port and starboard tack. I tried out her GK Sonic and was having a blast with it until I dumped it in the water and couldn't get it relaunched. I'm hoping it was simply because the kite wasn't pumped up enough or because the wind was dead near the beach!

I was wearing my GPS and captured today's session from a bird's eye view. The path is color coded by speed, but it clearly isn't correct for the maximum values!



After dinner at my parents, we drove up to Alta and collapsed in the cabin