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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ian Livingston and I put together a photo post on Tuesday that featured an assortment of photographs of snowkiting on the National Mall near the Washington Monument on March 3, 2014. During the photo ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — In the world of snowkiting, it doesn't get much better than southern Idaho's Camas Prairie. The high desert plain nestled between Mountain Home and Fairfield provides the ideal ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado ” Dave Grossman likes to travel in snow with a kite. While skiers shiver in chairlifts being cabled up the mountain, Grossman glides up the hill on skis pulled by a kite. “The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month, Icelanders Hoddi Tryggvason and Halldor Meyer completed a 4,200km circular snowkiting journey on Greenland’s ice sheet ...