My 6th wind wing skiing session was a mixed bag of adventure. The weather was very warm with a 5c SE wind gusting from 5-25 knots.
I set up the wing on the soft snow and had fun attaching my new GoPro Hero 8 to the boom. Easy mounting to a firm boom tube is nice advantage of the Echo wing over those wings with soft handles.
I got going right away but caught the tip of the wing and promptly wiped out on the wing. It continues to be quite robust when I fall on it, but I’m really working to stop doing that. Then I got going and am amazed by the quality of the GoPro video.
With the wet snow, it was a fair bit of work. I was getting warm and I went to change from my Skidoo suit to a lighter jacket. As I took my hand out of the safety leash and tried to reattach it with my thick glove on, I managed to drop the leash and the wing took off. It tumbled quite a distance and I had to pursue it on the snowmobile. I caught up but the one downwind (NW) track clearly shows on my otherwise SW/NE GPS trails.
I want to figure out how to show my speed on the GoPro video and am a bit daunted by the file size and amount of editing I might need to do. So I’ll post this and hope to do a video later.
I got a few more runs but my top winging speed only once topped 30 km/h. Total 6 km in 45 minutes. More wind and faster, harder snow is predicted for tomorrow.
Very cool - is that specifically designed for wind skiing?.....if so very cool indeed carl!......great camera work jen!
ReplyDeleteThanks Unknown? The wing is actually designed for using with a foil board. It just happens to be very nice to use in the winter with skis. I'm looking forward to using it in the spring on water. The photos in this blog post are from my new GoPro mounted to the wing boom. Jen did most of the photos on the rest of my blog posts. I think she gave me the GoPro so I won't bug her for a photo so often! The Snowmobile video is GoPro as well.
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