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My Blog Posted by: Chris Hess Feb 20th 2008 Andrew Manwaring and I decided to go kite skiing during the full lunar eclipse. The moon was a blood red and dark ...and the stars seemed to jump out of the sky. We launched our kites at the point where the moon was dark and kited around with our headlamps .. the wind was about 30km and gusts up to 40-45km ... with a surface condition that a Zamboni couldnt provide .. You can see the shadows of land , the dark , tall , frozen conifers on the islands, giving slight visual guidance as we whipped around hitting 50km without really seeing the ice surface in time if ever there was a problem with what was coming ... at that speed you have no clue what you are going to ski accross , frozen shark fins , tombstones, debris from the local ice huts .. a little nerve wracking ... But i must say this was one of the most glorious times kiting , during an planetary event one doesnt seem to see very often ... I wil remeber this lunar eclipse kite session for a long time as it was a perfect zen kite moment ... Life is too short NOT to do these kinds of things ... Peace and kite fast , during eclipses Christopher Hess ... Speedkiter
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