James Brown "vividly" remembers the first time he went kiting across a blanket of snow with nothing but the forces of nature to carry him along. "I was hooked from that first day for sure," says the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A field of fresh snow tends to bring out the kid in many of us. When it comes to playing in the snow, kids are notorious for coming up with ...

Fifteen years ago, Aaron Sales was one of the first to kiteboard over snow. Now he's taken the sport to a new height. (Brad Gordon) On May 18, 1980, Aaron Sales was a 6-year-old kid living in ...

Forget the beach. In winter, kiteboarders take to frozen lakes, harnessing icy winds for an adrenaline-fueled ride like no other at Michigan’s premier snowkite event. A biting wind whips across a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A February morning on Lake Minnetonka is calm and clear. But it's not long before you spot a streak of orange in the sky, and hear the rush of skis on snow. "That first winter I ...

It sounds more like one of Wile E. Coyote's bright ideas than a winter pastime: strap on a board and a giant kite and go careening across the snow. It could be the opening scene of An American ...

As a kid, I loved to fly a kite. It was almost always at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine.For about a dollar, we could buy a kite. It would be in a bag with plastic and sticks and string. We ...

LAKE MINNETONKA, Minn. (WCCO) --Getting through a Minnesota winter means finding plenty of things to do outdoors. You can ski, you can skate, go snowmobiling -- but there's another sport that's really ...

Last month, Icelanders Hoddi Tryggvason and Halldor Meyer completed a 4,200km circular snowkiting journey on Greenland’s ice sheet. The 50-day expedition began and finished near Tasiilaq on ...

A woman has been soaring over Toronto frozen waterfront by snowkiting, and she wants to teach others how to do it too. Laura Tombolini lives and works in downtown Toronto, and she wants to start up ...

The Plains of Abraham stretch across Mount St. Helens’ eastern flank for four miles before the pitch climbs 3,000 feet toward the crater. The barren flat looks more like the surface of the moon than a ...