Although today was a pretty nice day, and autumn has only just started, I am already looking forward to the winter season. Why? Well, for three reasons basically.
First of all, winter is the time of year wind speeds reach their maximum and for kiteboarding, wind is probably the only thing that matters. Ruben Lenten, our Dutch kiteboarding hero, recently posted a new vid up on the Mystic kiteboarding site. It’s called Stormsjees 3.0 and is one in the series of Stormsjees movies he’s done. Too bad Mystic doesn’t allow for it to be embedded on this blog, so instead I’ll just embed another vid, this time from Eddy Lansink, shot on the same day as the footage for Ruben’s Stormsjees movie was taken.
The second reason is skiing. I’ve been skiing a lot last winter and conditions where in one word amazing. It hasn’t snowed that much since 10 years or so. The background you’re seeing right now on my blog (if you’re not reading it through an RSS reader) is the mountain above our house in Italy, pictured last winter. For those of you with a big screen, on the right-hand side you can see a bunch of tracks made by off-piste skiers. The skiers walk up the road and pass our house after which they walk on for another 2 hours or so and then ski downhill.
I’ll be heading to Italy a few times this winter again hopefully.
The last reason I want winter to start again is because of work. The winter season is always the season I get a lot of stuff done. I hope I don’t get too much stuff done, because that would mean I can’t spend a lot of time kiteboarding or skiing 
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