Avid kiter Darren McChristie first saw snow kiting while living on Baffin Island about 20 years ago. “There was a festival, and they brought in a demonstration of snow kiting from a group of people from Quebec, where the sport was quite popular already in the early years,” he recalls.
“I fell in love with it at first sight and I bought a kite off of one of the people visiting. And I taught myself up in the arctic,” he says.
When he returned to Thunder Bay 17 years ago, McChristie continued with the sport here, and got certified to teach the winter version of the sport. Since it was still a new sport in this area, he started a company, Superior Outdoors (Superior Kiteboarding), which sells equipment. He also started learning the summer version of the sport, kiteboarding.