Rachael Miller was thinking snow this weekend for her first-ever girls-only snowkite camp. By midmorning Sunday, she got it.
Visibility was near zero on the ice of Lake Champlain near Sand Bar State Park as she and eight other women maneuvered their kites through the thick flakes.
It’s a good thing the kites were colorful.
After lunch the snow slowed.
“This snow is perfect. It’s perfect,” Miller said, as she and her crew trudged back from the parking lot to the place where heaps of colored fabric lay on the ice, anchored by packed snow.
A blue kite arced gently through the sky near the causeway, towing a rider along behind on skis as the wind lifted it above the frozen lake. Another kite rippled on the ice as a snowboarder sat tethered to the other end of its line.
The sport of snowkiting is a relatively new one. Miller attended the first instructor’s certification course in the country five years ago.
Article: Burlington Free Press.com