Kiting

I had my first major-mishap-free session at third today, and actually remembered to switch on my GPS. I managed a few jumps and actually landed them, but I always get nervous of the bridge looming downwind, so I haven't been very adventurous. Breaking down on "the outside" would be pretty serious. The GPS data is downloaded in .gpx format with GPSBabel with this command:

gpsbabel -i garmin -t -f /dev/ttyS1 -o gpx -F waypoint.gpx

Then manually edited to put all the tracks into one master track (I also had to edit out a spurious point which put me *in* the driving range), then GPSvisualizer.

colored by distance

colored by speed


I made a Google maps interactive viewer page (highly recommended) too.

note that the GPS stopped working at some point -- probably when I crashed after an ill timed jump. I ended up on the small beach that can be seen southwest from the track in the google maps page.

I also grabbed a few webcam shots of myself
pumping my kite up
more pumping
looking around
in the channel
in the channel again
whoa!!!
about to land my kite
landing it
putting my kite down
Drying off
Checking out the poor guy self rescuing in the bay