2013 erciyes volcano
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Snowkiting in Turkey, reaching the 3.920m Erciyes Volcano.TRANSCRIPT
On the front cover pic-ture : Johann Civel ripping in Cervières, France, during the 2014 OZONE photoshooting.
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Kiter : B
aris Düldül Turkey
High class blue hotel in the background :
Erciyes Volcano. Turkey.Hello everybody from snowkiting gangs.
This issue #14 of WKS is about our snowkiting trip in Turkey during two weeks on last 2013 march. You’ll find as well a «BONUS» report featuring the 2014 OZONE photoshooting in Serre-Chevalier, Lauta-ret, Montgenèvre, in the southern french Alps during last april.
That is the first WKS issue for this new 2014 winter coming soon. Here in France, the snowy weather is an-nounced and the snowkiting kick-off is due to the end of this week.
Well, it’s been a while since the last WKS #13 issue as I was always on the roads or trips during all the end of the past season. Sorry folks. But here we are now, the new season is starting, find along the further pages some snowkiting photos and han-dy infos. Don’t hesitate to click the links coming onto the pages to reach the kiters’ or companies’ website.
Thank you for reading :-)
Cheers, Pascal Boulgakoff
Erciyes Volcano. Turkey.
Close to Kayseri in the center of Turkey country, the Erciyes resort is a real great snowkiting spot. Pretty easy to get there, not expan-sive accomodations, starting kiting right next to the hotel, open wide areas with gentle slopes, big volca-no for high-mountain atmosphere, you will be really happy to plan a journey in winter for sure.
http://www.stefanogigli.com
Kiter : Stefano Gigli Italia
For the 4th
winter, I’m lucky enough to be
invited in the Erciyes re-sort by MISTER Murat Bükey
who is the OZONE kites distributor in Turkey. Really good kitesurfer, pretty
easy on the snow as well, Murat always makes his best to organize the week with all the comfort and
perfect scheddule about every points in order to offer an unforgettable snowkiting trip to his guests. If the Turkish coasts
are already famous for kitesurfing, there are more and more local snowkiters who join our week, year after year.
The level is pretty high and some of the Turkish freestylers can make real good show on the
kickers in front of the resort. Murat is making great job to push the
snowkiting sport growing up step by step for
now the past 5 years.
http://www.ozonehobby.com
The main
person here in the ERCIYES
resort is Mister Mehmet Eglenceoglu on the left, here
with Baris Düldül teaching. Owner of the Arlberg Sport center, with ski-shop,
restaurant, accomodations, Mr Mehmet was international turkish team race-ski competitor and
here managed to cruise around with the Ozone Access kite immediately after few minutes practising. Well, if you plan to
go snowkiting at Erciyes volcano, don’t hesitate to contact the Arlberg ski & snowboard center for booking your
room. Baris here on the right, is kite instructor and more on the terrain. Always kiting
with us, Baris as well was in charge about organizing every moment
of our trip with Murat Bükey. Big Up to
Baris !!!! :-)
http://www.arlbergsport.com
Except the local men Baris, Mu-
rat and Mehmet already intro-
duced, the kiters of the trip are
(from top left to bottom right) :
1- Kari Schibevaag from
Norway, 7 x snowkiting & wave
kitesurfing world champion.
Kari, always smiling is an ama-
zing high level kite woman.
2- Johann Civel, from France.
Johann is probably the best
snowkiter of the world on skis.
Easy for freestyle, high-moun-
tains, hill-gliding. Some kiters
might be better for one of these
points but nobody else for both.
3- Stefano Gigli from Italia.
Stefano is the Ozone kites dis-
tributor in Italia. Very good
kitesurfer, always ready for
big-mountains snowkiting ses-
sions. Stefano reached the Etna
volcano summit in Sicilia but is
enjoying the beauty of Mother
Nature before the kiting perfor-
mance.
4- Marek «MURPHY» Zach
from Czech Republic. Marek
is mainly into freestyle snow-
kiting. Already winner of the
SNOWKITEMASTERS. Best
kitesurfer and snowkiter from
CZ, this crazy friend never
miss any occasion to set his
scary «Murphy Cliff Project».
5- Wareck Arnaud, from
France. Wareck is one of the
snowkiting pioneers in France.
Organizer with Régis Labaune
of the legendary event SNOW-
KITEMASTERS, Wareck is
as well official OZONE photo-
grapher and video maker. With
Johann, Wareck is producing
great movies at Ride Up TV.
Not so easy to reach the sum-
mits with tripod, photo-came-
ra, and 15kg stuff. Big Up for Wareck. 6- Pascal Boulgakoff, from
France. It’s me. Nothing really
important to tell. There was
one frame left and nobody else
to show inside :-) Sorry.
https://vimeo.com/63383387
That was my 4th time here in Erciyes for snowkiting. Always invited by Murat Bükey. Every time I had really great sessions around. During the two past years, the snowpack was very big. All these slopes we can see in the background were cove-red of huge amount of fresh snow. This is the second time here with not so much snowpack, only the first time, four years ago, was as well not so cold. Anyway, this is the bottom of the resort, about 1.800m elevation and from the Arlberg Hotel, we can go cruising up toward the Erciyes Volcano slopes and up-there is always a very lot of snow. Don’t hesitate to click the link on the top left of this double-page, this is the good way to look at the 2013 Erciyes video about our week here.
https://vimeo.com/63383387
Here are the best friends for finding unbelievable ideas all the time. Marek sliding the tube he found under the snow. And Kari lying into for a perfect funny picture. When trave-ling with them, I often ear «Hey, Pascal, listen, I have an idea...» So, of course I go for it to get the best photos as possible :-)
Kiter : K
ari Schibevaag Norw
ay
Kiter : Johann C
ivel France
Luckily it’s possible to trust the weather forecast in Turkey. So, for the second year, we planed to have a snowkiting day-off when all the medias were announcing a 12 hours no-wind window. So we went visiting the Capadoccia villages. Here is Ürgüp, which is our favorite, although all the other villages are as well amazing. Pomegra-nate fruit juice is the best here and we can have a glass, straight from the fruit, when meeting the shops along our road or stops near the tourist places.
The Erciyes resort and its fa-
mous volcano are pretty close
to the amazing Capadoccia
country. Only two hours dri-
ving slowly and we can reach
the most beautiful and strange
stone natural shapes with inside
houses. So, Murat and Baris pro-
posed to visit Goreme, Uçhisar,
and other wonderful cities. This
occasion served to Murphy for
his «Project» which is always
funny, extreme, a kind of high
performance anyway, although
the sponsors are not absolutely
happy with this special way
for promoting their products...
Oupss. Murphy is and will
remain a bad-boy or punk and
that’s the way we love him !!!
Bon, quand j’ai préparé les
images et la maquette pour ce
numéro, j’avais prévu d’écrire
les textes en français et an-
glais, comme d’habitude. Mais
la météo s’est mise à annoncer
la neige pour demain. Du coup
j’ai compris que je n’aurais pas
le temps d’écrire les textes en
double, alors voilà, c’est tout
en anglais, tant pis pour vous
les frenchies. De toutes façons
c’est pas vraiment de l’anglais,
c’est plutôt du français avec
des mots anglais donc tout le
monde peut comprendre ce qui
se passe. Commencez
pas à rouspéter.
If you plan to go to the
Erciyes Volcano for snow-
kiting, don’t miss the Ca-
padoccia country, you’ll
be very impressed. Espe-
cially in winter (snow-
kiting season) as this is
the best moment if you
want to avoid thousands
of tourists around ;-) I
wish you some snow on
the cones, it’s awsome.
I will speak now for all
my friends team-mates
during this trip to send a
really warm and sincere
big amount of THANKS
to Murat here on the
right of the table. How
great was your hospitali-
ty and we’ll never forget
any moment from these
sweet days all together.
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For the first time after 3 seasons, we finaly managed to reach the summit of the Erciyes volcano, 3.916m. Sou-thern wind is needed and we never got it before. So, even if it’s super hard to cruise along the volcano bottom slopes from the resort to this southern face here on the picture, it was a strong fee-ling to reach the summit with very dan-gerous wind. I wish you to make it.
Kiter : W
areck Arnaud France
Here is one kind of «idea» which can come from Kari (on the right) and Murphy (above). They found these bear-suits in the Arlberg Sport Hotel, so decided to have a freestyle session with funny story-telling for the Ride-Up video. Not seen yet but for sure will come out sooner of later. Anyway, you can check out a short part in the 2013 Erciyes movie I edited last april from the link on the pages before. Incredible Kari & Murphy Punk.
http://www.schibevaag.com
Kiter : K
ari Schibevaag Norw
ay
The magazine reports,
the videos, and of
course this online
webzine «White Kite
Sessions», all is good
but if you want to be
up to dated immedia-
tely in the evening
about the daily ses-
sions, or even direct
live from the snow-
kiting spots around
the world, don’t hesi-
tate to join the White-
kitenews group on
facebook. Click the
link on the right and
feel welcome to our
worldwide crew !!!
Kiter : Rémi D
ineur France
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http://www.flyozone.com/snowkites/fr/
http://www.facebook.com/marek.m.zach
«White Kite Sessions» was proud to be part of the 2014 OZONE photoshoo-ting last april in France. A spring week with the new kite models and the international team-mates for high-level sessions and cool images about our snowkiting sport. Let’s have a look at that.
Kiter : M
arek MU
RPH
Y Zach C
zech Republic
Set in Serre-Chevalier, the photoshooting brought us to the best places around depending of the wind conditions. Lautaret was one of the spots. Cervières as well (photo here). But the main area was in Mont- genèvre. We had to take the chairlift and then ready to climb the big ridges from the top of the resort. High mountains, freestyle, crui-sing, all in one every day.
http://www.flyozone.com/snowkites/fr/
Kiter : D
ominik Zim
merm
ann Germ
any
This not so often we can spend some sessions with the inter-national crew. Iain Hannay from Spain, on the top left, is the Ozone manager now and was taking care about each of us for the best comfort as possible. Bottom left, here is Dominik Zim-mermann from Germany who was organising every details for this shooting. Collecting the kite models with all sizes, booking the accomodation, dispatching the kiters with the cars, checking out what is done and what’s remaining to do. Dom, high-level kiter, was the man for this event. With orange jacket and pho-to-camera, here is Wareck Arnaud, official Ozone photographer and top-level kiter. You can have a look at the Wareck’s images on the flyozone.com website or 2014 brochure. Bottom right, we are happy to welcome Hugues Beaume as team-kiter during the week. Hugues is a local gunner and always reaching the ultimate peaks around Lautaret, Cervières or Queyras.
A special page for the younger competitor of PKRA world championships, Patrick Blanc from Spain. Patrick was competing at the Snowkitemasters as well in the past years but now is mainly into kitesurfing for world top level sessions or filming. So that was really great to have Patrick with us during the first days although he hasn’t been lucky with the weather as you can see on the pic-ture. Anyway, he performed really strong. I’ve been checking everywhere to find a link for the Patrick’s home-page but didn’t get any. Sorry guys.
You already know Johann Civel as we saw him during the Erciyes report. Johann is the real local guy here for this photoshooting. On the picture, this is the Chenaillet ridge and Jojo was the first with Wareck and Rémi Dineur to reach the sum-mit with the kites. Johann was our guide during all the week as he knows the terrain and the snow conditions really well. Check with the link below his home page as snowkiting guide :
www.johanncivel.com
A few words about the kites. First, the entry level model : Access. This kite is the more stable, safe, soft, that you can find on the market. The performance is not the top but sin-cerely I don’t think any kiter will feel it too much slow or the preci-sion not high enough for cruising in the mountains. My opinion is that the ACCESS is the best kite for the beginners for sure but as well for about 80% of the snowkiters. Click the link above to see the video and read the technical details coming below the movie on Youtube page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLO-V79bgtY
Kiter : H
ugues Beaum
e France
The legendary FRENZY is really perfect with this 2014 issue. For sure the best kite for snow, ever. That’s it, that’s all. Each point of the testing list is offering the ultimate result as possible. I’m no more the exclusive photographer for Ozone now, and a little bit upset with the headquarters, so you can trust me ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwltQZ46188
Kiter : Johann C
ivel France
Why producing the SUMMIT if the Frenzy is the best kite ever? Because some kiters, a very small part of them, are expecting more ;-) And that is the case with SUMMIT about the speed, the power, the fast reactions. Perfect for the top-level freestylers. Not sure that the name «Summit» is . the right one as when reaching the top of the peaks, we need a stable and smooth kite. Anyway, the Summit is an outstanding product, definitely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPCMNwE53eQ
Kiter : Johann C
ivel France Go big or go home :-)
www.kitetracker.com
«White Kite Sessions» is using KITETRACKER app for live GPS recording along the snowkiting routes or tracks. Mega database now about every snowkiting spots around the world. Super handy. If you plan to go to a new mountain, check on KITE-TRACKER where to start from, the path to follow, the highest points rea-chable. It’s free, of course. Available now for IOS7 and Android.
There are some challenges as well, with prize-money. You can share photos of the ses-sion. Well, find all the details and rules on the home-page while clic-king top left link.
Here on the pic-tures the KITRACKER team-mates Dom, Johann, Murphy. Be well prepared if you’re expec-ting to beat them. Good luck, man :-)
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You’re reading the issue #14 of «White Kite Sessions» online webzine. Last sea-son 13 issues went out along the winter monthes. Starting from the first sessions late september here in France, and kee-ping the readers up to dated after every trip abroad, or cool event in France.If you miss some of them, if you’re new comer here at WKS, you can have a look at the stories, the photos, infos, links, details, tips, portraits, well, everything which is part of our snowkiting sport. Incredible !
Many thanks to the main french kiting website FLYSURF.COM for running a partnership with WKS. Forum, News, Shop, Second hand, Reports : click the link below to enter the game !!!(Photo : Johann Civel will reach the top :-)
http://www.flysurf.com
This is the end. The next issue will come out, but I definitely don’t know when... So stay tuned dudes.Thank you veeery much for your inte-rest. Keep careful with your kite. Cheers.
All photos,
texts, captions,
designs :
Pascal Boulgakoff
Kiter : H
ugues Beaum
e France