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I was kiting last month at the mouth of the white salmon river on the gorge when my board smacks a salmon jumping out of the water. Ive hit a coot on waconia (put a dent in my blue board), hit a seagull with my lines in the ocean, but a salmon? Well I did what any good minnesotan would do, I bent do...

Wed at he gorge had a front come thru with the biggest winds Ive seen here in 20 years. Went down to the sand bar to kite but saw a friend go out on a naish aero 4.0 and get pummeled so I put my 7.0 gto back in the car and watch ed one brave kiter on 10 meter lines do pretty well. the wind report la...

Let the fun begin! There is just some ice on the south shore near town, so the launch site is free and easy. Had my first kite session of 2004 yesterday at the sandbar in the gorge. 70 degrees 20 kts. went on my 9.3 and it all came back after no kiting for 5 months. Talked to akiter that sail every ...

I SAW some familiar faces in the Hood River News today. Alex and others had a great story and pics all about the red bull contest. It mentioned they found some great kite skiing in the bowls of Mt. St. Helens. What a blast that would be (no pun intended). Somebody is out kiting or surfing every day ...

Sunday, mar 6, I spotted 2 kiters down at the hatchery, temp was 65 and it hit 70 yesterday. Its a short winter out here and the west winds are returning. From Bingen t o dougs beach its all emerald green with beautiful wildflowers. Jim Arnold and I took a mtn. bike trip up courtney creek and realiz...

Howdy gang, the gorge is being hit with the biggest blizzard in 15 years! I have 2-3 feet of fluffy white in my front yard. I left MN to get away from this. A local kiteboarder made the TV news last night kiting in a park in hood river. We have east winds 25-30 today and the temp is 12. Last year we...

Thanks for your positve spirit ,Tighe and all your work to connect all of us wind junkies...Moondog

got out today windsurfing on my 4.7 very gusty but the air temp hit 60 so it helped buffer the cool water. we have very few west winds in Nov so always book your vacation in july. Still have nice fall colors, the lowest temp Ive seen is 25. Alex took off for China today, doing some design work for w...

Very interesting. My last kiting session was oct 28, 70 degrees at Lyle on my 12 meter. A cold front went through the next day with 40 kt winds and the temp hasnt been above 48 since. Also east winds only. The town is empty the river is empty, the only excitement was a 15 year old learning to drive ...

Howdy everyone in minnesnowta! Its been a great fall in the gorge mostly great kiting, winds been a little weak for windsurfing, 80 degrees yesterday. I was kiting solo yesterday at swell and my board got ripped off my feet by a big swell. The sun was right in my eyes so I lost sight of my board rea...

An 18 year old boy drowned out here last night, body still not recovered. A group of kids were paddling out to the Island and back and he seperated from them and drowned. When you think what we do out here on 30 kt. days it s hard to believe this happens. Each day is a gift! On a lighter note... the...

mike and I got out from 4-6 it waqs a fun time and a great gift. Could be the last time I kite in MN. because of knee surgery and moving.

wind-S 15-20 will be stronger and hotter than yesterday but will diminish later in the day. Yesterday was a BLAST!

today and tommorrow are looking great at waconia. I talked the prisoners at the chaska workhouse to get rid of all the winter hump damage on the beach (without a DNR permit) what are they going to do arrest them?! 8am winds SE 15 friday looks stronger.
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wind SE 15-25 storm is through shiuld be good fror 3-5 hours

8am- 15-25from the NW I have to fly to diego and back but tomorrow looks good again in the afternoon. YA MON!

winds SE 15-20 sunny , the wind god continues to bless us!

Did a 3hour session from 1030 to 130 on sat. with a 9.3 north, blew all night and at noon on sunday it is 15-25 South. Rain is diminishing so it could be a great afternoon session. Only Access to the lake is now Hiway 7 and south on 92/30 one lane to the parking area. We are bak in the wind patterns...

greatday, it was fun doing 30 on a windsurfer again! Sorry the mille lacs crowd got rain and no wind, a very strange place to forecast. It is 930 pm and it is still blowing 25+.... it was an epic day!

clear, wind SW-10-15, should be good for kiting in the morning and surfing in the afternoon and eveing. The wind will be clocking towards the NW as the day progresses,might be epic! We are DUE!