BeamerBob
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Coldest member of PKF? Yellowknife Canada
| Quote: | Originally posted by Rye
Been a buggy guy but have moved to a place hard to buggy so this year leaning kite skiing! The buggy and me are looking at flying to events posted
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I just looked at the weather for Yellowknife Canada and noticed you go about 6 months without getting above freezing! Is that how it really works out
or do you get some thawing in between somewhere. Also, what is it that led you to such a place?
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B-Roc
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Yellowknife was featured on "Ice Road Truckers" on the History channel this past summer. Looked mighty cold during the day and more cold at night.
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Bladerunner
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Ahh, but in the spring time you can kite 24 / 7 since the sun never sets :o
Actaully Yellowknifes average temp is = to most places in Canada. It just happens to be night time for a couple of months. The long days of summer
make up for it.
I'm suprised you can't find some old industrial land to buggy around there ?
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Dude get a snow/ice buggy!
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who needs land when you got snow up there. i went on a one week trip for snowkiting in Yellowknife a few years back. its some of the best
cross-country snowkiting i've done. I went from one small camp to the next, and got to travel miles with kite and skiis.
winter road trip!
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Scudley
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| Quote: | Originally posted by GlideGuy
Hey you warm blooded babies....there is a frozen ocean up there to ride on!!!!
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Yellowknife is no where near the Arctic Ocean. It is on Great Slave Lake though. You could kite ski down the McKenzie River to TuS-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-,
but it would be a long trip dodging trucks on the ice road, >700 miles as the crow flies.
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GlideGuy
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Yep, I know where Yellowknife is... I was being a smart ass.
Lots of people around here refer to anything you can ski or board on as a frozen ocean. Great Slave Lake ain't no fish pond.
There are a pretty big bunch of hardcore riders up North. Did you check that link to kiteyukon?
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For me it is hard to imagine open terrain like that with no trees. All my open area I can kite in here have trees at some distance away. Some have a
small effect and others ruin the site for flying. I have to pick my site based on wind direction to avoid tree shadow.
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