A password will be e-mailed to you.

[one_half]The Fall 2014 Issue of The Kiteboarder Magazine[/one_half]

[one_half_last]

 

BUY NOW If you can’t get to a local school or shop to pick up a copy of the Fall issue, there are oodles of other ways to access our latest content. Purchase a digital copy of the magazine to view on your favorite device, read stories on-the-go via our mobile iOS app, order a high-quality, large format print version for your coffee table, or make it easy all around — and just subscribe.

AFRAID OF COMMITMENT? No problem. If you’re willing to wait for the latest information on gear, travel and adventure — each issue of TKB eventually becomes available to read online at no charge. When a new issue comes out, the previous one is released. That means, as of today, Volume 11, number 2 is now free![/one_half_last]

The Kiteboarder Magazine Volume 11, Number 3 is now shipping! Visit your local kite shop or school to pick up a copy today.

 

FEATURED STORIES:

 

[two_third]PIPELINE – It’s been 27 years since Robby Naish’s iconic windsurfing session on the North Shore’s hollowed Pipeline. John Bilderback was there in ’87 and in this issue kitesurfing’s leading image-smith captures another hallmark of Pipe history; Reo Stevens and Keahi de Aboitiz scoring a spectacularly rare session of legitimate Pipeline in the middle of last year’s North Shore winter.[/two_third]

[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-pipeline4[/one_third_last]

 

[two_third]BEYOND BEER PONG – Billy Bosch returns to college as part of a new management team for the College Kiteboarding Association, Billy is working hard to introduce organization, more events and prize money to seduce a larger population of university students into the addictive grasp of kiteboarding.[/two_third]
[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-beyondbeerpong4[/one_third_last]

 

[two_third]KATABATIC CIRCLES – Flemish explorer Dixie Danscoer had a theory about using the curvature of polar winds to circumnavigate the world’s largest ice sheets by kite. The first attempt in Antartica failed but in this issue Dixie and expedition partner Eric McNair Landry towed 400lb sleds past a network of abandoned cold war radar sites while dodging Hercules ice runways and vicious ice formations called sastrugi to circumnavigate the continent of Greenland.[/two_third]
[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-katabatic[/one_third_last]

 

[two_third]LARGER THAN LIFE – Colleen Carroll tears a page out of her travel notes to highlight the addition of Aaron Hadlow to the north team after 13 years with Flexifoil, Craig Cunnigham’s 74 foot Jibstruction addition to the Hood River Slider Project and a road trip down the west coast to to explore the larger than life beauty of San Francisco’s Golden Gate.[/two_third]
[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-largertlife[/one_third_last]

 
[two_third]WHERE THE WIND BLOWS – Freelance photographer and digital media specialist Jen Jones created a video mini-series to highlight the talented female athletes hailing Hood River as a summertime home. Where The Wind Blows follows four girls into the diverse agriculture, culinary and kiteboarding spheres of Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge and Coast to learn a lot about living the good life.[/two_third]
[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-wtwb[/one_third_last]

 

[two_third]SEA CHANGE – What exactly is adventure, and what drives us in search for more? Tkb’s Amy Robb lands aboard a 38′ foot catamaran in St. Martin, and with the help of professional kiteboarder Damien Leroy, explores the ever-changing (and always constant) nature of adventure.[/two_third]
[one_third_last]V11N3-tease-seachange[/one_third_last]

 

Get your copy of the Fall 2014 The Kiteboarder Magazine Volume 11, Number 3 or visit your local kite shop or school to pick up a copy today.