REGINA --
While downhill skiing and snowboarding options may be limited on the prairies, a group of Saskatchewan thrill-seekers have been getting their boarding fix from kiteboarding.
“[It’s] an adrenaline rush if you want to get going really fast [and] if you want to jump really high,” said Caitlin Stewart, a member of the Saskatchewan Windriders.
The group of kiteboarding and windsurfing enthusiasts has been around for over 35 years.
“You’re wind-powered and it’s propelling you across the land or the water, you’re attached with a harness to your bar and lines out to your kite,” Stewart explained. “It gives us the option here on the prairies of snowboarding without needing a mountain.”